5th February 2021
From Tudor palaces to Egyptian pyramids, there’s nothing like a good royal-themed novel to sweep you away to a new place when travel isn’t possible. The
Royal Central team is sharing some of our recent favourite fiction picks.
Kristin Contino, Chief Reporter
Wife After Wife, and the sequel is just as fantastic in a different way.
Sister to Sister reimagines Elizabeth I and her half-sister, Mary, as Eliza and Maria, daughters of Harry Rose (aka Henry VIII) and competing heirs for his modern-day media empire. Told from the alternating viewpoints of Harry and Eliza, this novel is a fun read but also packed quite an emotional punch for me (I’m not too proud to admit I cried my eyes out!). Eliza’s best friends include William Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe, and Kit absolutely steals the spotlight and was my favourite character by far. You also might find yourself with an intense longing to travel to London as soon as COVID protocols permit.
An Incomplete List of the Writers, Editors, and Great
Literary Minds We Lost This Year
December 18, 2020
The year is at an end, and I think I speak for pretty much everyone when I say: good riddance. (While we don’t have any guarantee that 2021 will be an improvement, it seems like it would have to be.) Among the many unhappinesses of this year, we lost what seems like an unusually large number of members of the literary community, from poets to novelists to editors to critics to publishers to booksellers. To them, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. They will be missed.