Laura Navarre, Author

Recent Blog Entries

INK AND STEEL by Elizabeth Bear
August 22, 2010 - 2:57pm

Set in Tudor England during Elizabeth Tudor’s sunset years and in the parallel world of Faerie, INK AND STEEL is a highly unusual, poetic and sensual cross between alternate history and mythic fantasy, written in the opulent style of J.R.R.

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| Fantasy | Historical Fiction

THE WHITE QUEEN by Philippa Gregory
August 8, 2010 - 8:46pm

This War of the Roses-set historical novel by the queen of Tudor fiction tells the story of the infamous Elizabeth Woodville, who married the King of England in secret for love.  Controversial queen, mother of the lost princes in the Tower, and gra

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| Historical Fiction

THE LADY ELIZABETH by Alison Weir
May 30, 2010 - 1:45am

This book is a novelization of the early life of Elizabeth Tudor, set of course in sixteenth-century England. Eminent historian Alison Weir makes her sophomore venture into the world of Tudor-era historical fiction with a vivid and dramatic retelling of the early life of Elizabeth Tudor.

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| Historical Research

NO NIGHT WITHOUT STARS by Andre Norton
May 30, 2010 - 1:41am

Set on a primitive, post-apocalyptic Earth, this is the story of an exiled smith’s apprentice and a renegade female shaman who journey together across a hostile land to retrieve knowledge from an ancient repository (actually a primitive computer system that survived the apocalpyse). As it turns out, the system is not unguarded, and this knowledge can either save or destroy them.

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| Fantasy