The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Previously published as ‘Queen’s Gambit’, this compellingly chilling novel has now been adapted into a major feature film starring, Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Michelle Williams and Sam Riley. Meet the woman who survived Henry VIII in Elizabeth Fremantle’s Firebrand. 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 – for 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.