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Philippa Gregory
(b.1954)Born in Kenya in 1954, Philippa Gregory moved to England with her family and was educated in Bristol and at the National Council for the Training of Journalists course in Cardiff. She worked as a senior reporter on the Portsmouth News, and as a journalist and producer for BBC Radio.
Philippa obtained a BA degree in History at the University of Sussex in Brighton and a PhD at Edinburgh University in 18th-century literature. Her first novel, Wideacre, was written as she completed her PhD and became an instant worldwide bestseller. On its publication, she became a full-time writer.
Wideacre was followed by a haunting sequel, The Favoured Child, and the delightful happy ending of the trilogy: Meridon. This novel was listed in Feminist Book Fortnight and for the Romantic Novel of the Year at the same time.
She lives in the North of England with her family and in addition to interests that include riding, walking, skiing and gardening (an interest born from research into the Tradescant family for her novel Virgin Earth) she also runs a small charity building wells in school gardens in The Gambia.
Philippa obtained a BA degree in History at the University of Sussex in Brighton and a PhD at Edinburgh University in 18th-century literature. Her first novel, Wideacre, was written as she completed her PhD and became an instant worldwide bestseller. On its publication, she became a full-time writer.
Wideacre was followed by a haunting sequel, The Favoured Child, and the delightful happy ending of the trilogy: Meridon. This novel was listed in Feminist Book Fortnight and for the Romantic Novel of the Year at the same time.
She lives in the North of England with her family and in addition to interests that include riding, walking, skiing and gardening (an interest born from research into the Tradescant family for her novel Virgin Earth) she also runs a small charity building wells in school gardens in The Gambia.
Awards: RNA (2002) see all
Genres: Historical, Young Adult Fiction, Children's Fiction, Mystery
New and upcoming books
Series
Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
1. The Lady of the Rivers (2011)
2. The White Queen (2009)
3. The Red Queen (2010)
4. The Kingmaker's Daughter (2012)
5. The White Princess (2013)
6. The Constant Princess (2005)
7. The King's Curse (2014)
8. Three Sisters, Three Queens (2015)
9. The Other Boleyn Girl (2001)
10. The Boleyn Inheritance (2006)
11. The Taming of the Queen (2015)
12. The Queen's Fool (2003)
13. The Virgin's Lover (2003)
14. The Last Tudor (2017)
15. The Other Queen (2008)
1. The Lady of the Rivers (2011)
2. The White Queen (2009)
3. The Red Queen (2010)
4. The Kingmaker's Daughter (2012)
5. The White Princess (2013)
6. The Constant Princess (2005)
7. The King's Curse (2014)
8. Three Sisters, Three Queens (2015)
9. The Other Boleyn Girl (2001)
10. The Boleyn Inheritance (2006)
11. The Taming of the Queen (2015)
12. The Queen's Fool (2003)
13. The Virgin's Lover (2003)
14. The Last Tudor (2017)
15. The Other Queen (2008)
Order of Darkness
1. Changeling (2012)
2. Stormbringers (2013)
3. Fools' Gold (2014)
4. Dark Tracks (2018)
1. Changeling (2012)
2. Stormbringers (2013)
3. Fools' Gold (2014)
4. Dark Tracks (2018)
Princess Rules
1. The Princess Rules (2019)
2. It's a Prince Thing (2020)
3. The Mammoth Adventure (2021)
1. The Princess Rules (2019)
2. It's a Prince Thing (2020)
3. The Mammoth Adventure (2021)
Novels
A Respectable Trade (1992)
Alice Hartley's Happiness (1992)
aka Mrs. Hartley and the Growth Centre / Midlife Mischief
The Wisewoman (1992)
Fallen Skies (1993)
Perfectly Correct (1996)
The Little House (1996)
Zelda's Cut (2000)
Boleyn Traitor (2025)
Alice Hartley's Happiness (1992)
aka Mrs. Hartley and the Growth Centre / Midlife Mischief
The Wisewoman (1992)
Fallen Skies (1993)
Perfectly Correct (1996)
The Little House (1996)
Zelda's Cut (2000)
Boleyn Traitor (2025)
Collections
Novellas and Short Stories
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Books containing stories by Philippa Gregory
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Philippa Gregory recommends
There are Rivers in the Sky (2024)
Elif Shafak
"Flows like rivers from ancient Nineveh to present-day London with characters of the distant past as bright and vivid as those of today."
The Glassmaker (2024)
Tracy Chevalier
"Tracy Chevalier returns to the world of medieval craft and gives us another determined heroine--a Venetian glassmaker who penetrates the closed world of the men of Murano. Meticulously researched and evoking the beauty of the Venice lagoon, the story challenges and transports the reader through time and place."
Wild, Beautiful, and Free (2023)
Sophfronia Scott
"Telling the story of a child of a slave owner and an enslaved woman, Wild, Beautiful, and Free focuses on the individual heartbreaks of slavery and especially on the heroine, a courageous young woman who has to find her own route to becoming a free woman. It's intensely readable - a page-turner set in a vividly described landscape."
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