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Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe comes out of retirement to find his friend Don Blas Vivar, Captain-General of the Spanish colony of Chile.

Chief Intelligencer John Shakespeare, the bard's younger brother, is summoned out of retirement back to the dangerous intrigues of the palace when a plot against the aging Queen Elizabeth I causes her to be targeted by two of England's most powerful men.

Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, finds herself caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, after her ability to foresee the future leads her to work for the Queen as a spy.

Tells the story of the Elgin Marbles, named for Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin, who removed the sculptures from the Parthenon while serving as British ambassador in Constantinople, and discusses the controversies that still rage over the rightful ownership of the treasures.

A young actor at the Globe Theatre must defend his master when Queen Elizabeth suspects that Shakespeare tried to help the Earl of Essex overthrow her.

A glamorous American multimillionairess, Alice de Janze left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover, and went through a failed murder-suicide. She then left Paris and went to Kenya's Happy Valley in Africa (where many prominent English lived) and became the lover of womanizer Joseph Errol. In 1941, Errol was shot in his car on an isloated road. The crime remains unsolved. What really happened on that fateful evening in an era of unimaginable wealth and indulgence is the subject of this book.

Hannah Verde and her father are Jews who have escaped the Spanish Inquisition by moving to England where her father sets up his printing business. There she meets Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, who introduces her to the court of King Edward VI as a "holy" fool, because Hannah can sometimes foretell the future. She stays at court after Edward dies to serve Queen Mary I and at the same time is also accepted by her half-sister, Elizabeth. Hannah soon finds her loyalties divided and she is at the center of the intrigue to replace the Catholic Queen Mary with the Protestant Princess Elizabeth.

In autumn, 1558, Anne Boleyn's daughter, Elizabeth, is crowned Queen of England. Crucial to her success is Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who has been her supporter (and some say her lover) during her struggle for the throne. In an age where women were thought to be unable to govern on their own, Elizabeth is urged to marry soon so England can finally have peace. However, the one man she desires is Robert Dudley who is already married to Amy, a wife who will not let him fulfill his ambitions at her expense. As Robert begins to court Elizabeth he asks himself whether it will be possible to put his wife aside to marry a queen.

Aoife, an Irish princess of Leinster, and Richard de Clare, known as Strongbow, tell their story of love, war, and marriage during the reign of Henry Plantagenet.