Award-winning author Victoria Lamb blends magic, adventure, intrigue and romance in Witchstruck, the first book in her mesmerising Tudor Witch trilogy.Sixteenth century England is a dangerous place to be a witch – and nobody knows this better than young sorceress Meg Lytton. Having grown up pract...
‘I promise you, my lady, I am no necromancer like Master Dee. I do not know the right words and to get the spell wrong could be disastrous.’ ‘My mother would never harm me,’ she said stubbornly. ‘Queen Jane died at Hampton Court, perhaps in these very apartments, soon after your brother King Edwa...
Elizabeth drew her furred mantle about herself, for the month was December and the vast log fire in the hearth could never quite shake off the cold at Nonsuch, for all that her father’s grand palace was impressive to look upon.For a moment she gazed upon Sir Robert Cecil, youngest son of Lord Bur...
You will need to stoop a little, I fear.’ ‘I remember the low ceilings,’ Elizabeth replied in a hollow voice, and bent her head. Walsingham had led her uncomfortably deep inside the Tower of London, far from the sombre but spacious suite of rooms in which she had been kept during her sister Mary’...
She had spent the previous evening in the company of her ladies-in-waiting, listening as they took turns to read aloud from a translation of the long French poem The Romance of the Rose. It had been a relief not to preside over the feast again, for Walsingham’s tales of spies and assassins had le...
Then I returned aimlessly to the book beside my bed. My mother’s grimoire. I turned a few pages restlessly, not reading the words but viewing them in a daze. I was alone with Richard, and glad of his company. Kat and Blanche had scurried anxiously away to talk when we were all sent upstairs, and ...