The past 900 years of Britain's history have been shaped by strong female characters whose role was downplayed in male-dominated records. Historical novelist Philippa Gregory reveals her immense pride ...

The publication of two books this season by Philippa Gregory gives us not only two more fascinating portraits of the English Wars of the Roses, it also opens a window onto the way the bestselling ...

Tessa Boase’s Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather. It’s an interesting exploration of the sort of women who opposed votes for women, because they believed women should be influential in suitable campaigns ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The novelist spoke about her career writing complex women across history on the ‘Bookmarked by Reese’s Book Club’ podcast Awakening/Getty ...

Multi-million-pound selling historical author Philippa Gregory is to take her fiction in a new direction in a four-book global deal with her publisher Simon & Schuster. The deal, signed last week, is ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “Tidelands,” by Philippa Gregory (Atria Books, fiction, on ...

IMAGINE a fairytale where the princess doesn't wear a pink ballgown and sparkling shoes, in a world where a handsome prince doesn't necessarily rescue the beautiful helpless heroine from the tower.

We are all atwitter about royals these days. Novelist Philippa Gregory wants to remind us it wasn't all roses for some royals of the past, and that can make for compelling stories. Prince William and ...

In an interview that raised many hackles, Gregory dismissed erotica as ‘pornography’ and crime novel villains as ‘blindingly obvious’ – despite her own novels occupying a distinct genre themselves In ...

I'm reading Elizabeth von Arnim's Father. It's a social comedy set pre-World War II, her own time, and is a gently satirical take on the problems facing a woman who wants to be independent. The ...