{"product_id":"secondhand-jean-plaidy-historical-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2696","title":"Secondhand Jean Plaidy Historical Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2696","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Jean Plaidy Historical Fiction Bargain Book Box — 24 Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eJean Plaidy — the pen name of the extraordinarily prolific Eleanor Hibbert — wrote over ninety novels bringing the queens, kings, and courtiers of European history vividly to life. This box gathers twenty-four of them, ranging from medieval England to the French Revolution, from the Plantagenets to Queen Victoria, from Catherine de Medici to Mary Queen of Scots. Crucially for collectors and series readers, the box contains the complete Charles II Trilogy, the complete Medici Trilogy, and the opening three books of the Plantagenet Saga — substantial runs through some of Plaidy's richest historical territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eCourts of Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Eleanor of Aquitaine presides over her legendary courts of love in Aquitaine — the great queen in her own right, not merely a king's consort, shaping the culture of courtly romance that would define medieval Europe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eVictoria in the Wings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Victorian Saga, Book 1)\u003c\/em\u003e The first book in the Victorian Saga follows the young princess navigating the suffocating \"Kensington System\" engineered by her mother and the scheming Sir John Conroy — the battle for Victoria's independence before she even reached the throne.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eSt Thomas's Eve\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Magnificent Tudor Series)\u003c\/em\u003e The story of Alice More, wife of Sir Thomas More, as she watches her husband's conscience draw him inexorably toward execution. One of Plaidy's most emotionally powerful Tudor novels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eVictoria Victorious\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Victoria narrates her own reign in first person — the young queen finding her authority, her love for Albert, the long widowhood that followed his death, and the remarkable transformation of Britain across her sixty-three years on the throne.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eUneasy Lies the Head\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Taking its title from Shakespeare's Henry IV — \"uneasy lies the head that wears a crown\" — this Tudor novel examines the weight of monarchy and the impossible demands made of those who hold it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eThe Heart of the Lion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Plantagenet Saga, Book 3)\u003c\/em\u003e Richard I — the Lionheart — takes centre stage: crusader, warrior-king, and largely absentee ruler of England, whose glory on the battlefield was matched by his neglect of the kingdom he nominally governed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eThe Lady in the Tower\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Anne Boleyn's rise and fall — from the king's consuming obsession to the Tower of London and the block. Plaidy understood the terror beneath the glamour of the Tudor court better than almost any other novelist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eThe Thistle and the Rose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, leaves England to marry James IV of Scotland — a diplomatic marriage that plants the seed of the eventual Stuart succession to the English throne.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eThe Queen's Secret\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Katherine of Valois, widow of Henry V, carries a secret that will shape English history: her clandestine marriage to Owen Tudor, from which the entire Tudor dynasty would spring.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eThe Reluctant Queen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Anne Neville, queen to Richard III, is drawn into the dynastic violence of the Wars of the Roses not by ambition but by circumstance — a woman whose life was shaped entirely by the men who fought over the crown.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eFlaunting, Extravagant Queen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The French Revolution Series, Book 3)\u003c\/em\u003e Marie Antoinette in all her doomed splendour — the Austrian archduchess who became Queen of France and was destroyed by a revolution she never understood. Book 3 of the French Revolution series (Book 1 also present in this box).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eLouis the Well-Beloved\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The French Revolution Series, Book 1)\u003c\/em\u003e Louis XV of France — charming, weak, pleasure-loving — presides over the Versailles court while the conditions for revolution slowly assemble around him. The first book in the French Revolution series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eIn the Shadow of the Crown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Mary I — \"Bloody Mary\" — seen not as a monster but as a woman: Henry VIII's discarded daughter, Catherine of Aragon's loyal child, a queen whose religious convictions led her to decisions history has never forgiven.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eRoyal Road to Fotheringay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Mary Queen of Scots Series, Book 1)\u003c\/em\u003e Mary Stuart's story from her French childhood through her turbulent Scottish reign — beautiful, reckless, magnetic, and fatally unable to combine passion with political survival. The first of two books in this box on Mary's life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eQueen of This Realm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Elizabeth I tells her own story — the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, the greatest political survivor of her age — in one of Plaidy's most ambitious and satisfying first-person narratives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eThe Captive Queen of Scots\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Mary Queen of Scots Series, Book 2)\u003c\/em\u003e Mary's flight to England and the long, bitter captivity that followed — nineteen years as Elizabeth's prisoner before the axe fell at Fotheringay. A companion to \u003cem\u003eRoyal Road to Fotheringay\u003c\/em\u003e, also in this box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eThe Plantagenet Prelude\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Plantagenet Saga, Book 1)\u003c\/em\u003e Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II — one of history's great power couples — at the foundation of the Plantagenet dynasty. The beginning of a saga that continues through Books 2 and 3, also in this box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eThe Revolt of the Eaglets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Plantagenet Saga, Book 2)\u003c\/em\u003e Henry II's sons rise against their father — Eleanor of Aquitaine imprisoned for her part in the rebellion, the king's authority tested from within his own family. A continuation of \u003cem\u003eThe Plantagenet Prelude\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eHere Lies Our Sovereign Lord\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Charles II Trilogy, Book 3)\u003c\/em\u003e The final volume of the Charles II Trilogy — the Merry Monarch in his last years, still charming and politically shrewd, still surrounded by mistresses, but beginning to sense the limits of even his extraordinary survival instincts. All three Charles II books are present in this box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eMadame Serpent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Medici Trilogy, Book 1)\u003c\/em\u003e Catherine de Medici arrives in France as the neglected wife of a future king — tolerated, overlooked, and quietly storing up reserves of patience and ambition that would make her the most powerful woman in Europe. The beginning of a complete trilogy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eThe Italian Woman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Medici Trilogy, Book 2)\u003c\/em\u003e Catherine de Medici as Queen Mother — the real power behind the French throne, steering her weak sons through the religious wars tearing France apart. The second book of the complete Medici trilogy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eQueen Jezebel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Medici Trilogy, Book 3)\u003c\/em\u003e The final reckoning of Catherine de Medici's reign — culminating in the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572, when thousands of French Protestants were slaughtered at her instigation. The darkest and most compelling volume of the trilogy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eThe Wandering Prince\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Charles II Trilogy, Book 1)\u003c\/em\u003e Charles Stuart in exile — the young king without a kingdom, wandering the courts of Europe after his father's execution, waiting for the moment that would bring him home. The opening of a complete trilogy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJean Plaidy — \u003cem\u003eA Health Unto His Majesty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Charles II Trilogy, Book 2)\u003c\/em\u003e The Restoration — Charles II returns to England in triumph and sets about becoming the most entertainingly dissolute monarch in English history. The middle volume of the complete Charles II Trilogy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759331913947,"sku":"SP2696","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/IMG_0658.jpg?v=1778409169","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-jean-plaidy-historical-fiction-bargain-book-box-sp2696","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}