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Firebrand
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  • Published: 20 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405965866
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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Firebrand

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Paperback
3 Dec 2024
EBook
20 June 2024
Audiobook
25 July 2024
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Travel to Tudor England is this vivid tale charting the life and love of Katherine Parr, wife and widow to Henry VIII. Previously published as Queen’s Gambit, FIREBRAND is now a major feature film

Meet the woman who survived Henry VIII.

My name is Katherine Parr.

I'm 31 years old and already twice widowed.

I'm in love with a man I can't have, and am about to wed a man no-one would want.

My husband-to-be is none other than Henry VIII, who has already beheaded two wives, cast aside two more, and watched one die in childbirth.

What will become of me once I'm wearing his ring and become Queen of England?

They say that the sharpest blades are sheathed in the softest pouches.

Only time will tell what I am really made of...
  • Published: 20 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405965866
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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About the author

Elizabeth Fremantle

Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor historical novels: Firebrand (formerly Queen’s Gambit and recently an acclaimed feature film starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law)), Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower. As E.C. Fremantle she has written two historical thrillers: The Poison Bed and The Honey and the Sting. Disobedient, her feminist retelling of the life of seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, won the 2024 Historical Writers Gold Crown Award. She lives in London.

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Disobedient
The Honey and the Sting
The Poison Bed
The Girl in the Glass Tower
Watch the Lady
Sisters of Treason
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