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Spain for the Sovereigns
Spain for the Sovereigns
Dec 27, 2025 6:47 PM

Author:Jean Plaidy

Spain for the Sovereigns

Married to Ferdinand after continual fears and disappointments, Isabella triumphed over every dangers, convinced of her true destiny.

With the might of Portugal humbled, the Court of the Sovereigns saw the rise of Torquemada, the establishment of the dreaded Inquisition, and th ecoming of Columbus, who left the woman he loved to make a dream reality.

Ambitious and unfaithful, Ferdinand longed to lead his troops against the Moorish strongholds. Isabella knew a united Spain and a glorious future could be theirs, but they must only share it together...

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Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there

—— Matt Bates, WHSmith Travel

Jean Plaidy doesn't just write the history, she makes it come alive.

—— Julia Moffat, RNA

Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama

—— New York Times

Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting

—— Observer

Outstanding

—— Vanity Fair

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

—— Guardian

Jean Plaidy has already established herself among the foremost of current historical novelists

—— Birmingham Mail

Armistead Maupin is in fine form in the delightful, tender and funny Michael Tolliver Lives. The beloved characters from the Tales of the City books are back, and it feels as if they've never been away

—— The Gloss Magazine

Anyone who enjoyed [Maupin's] earlier books will welcome this opportunity for a return trip to its setting... Has the warmth of a reunion long overdue

—— The New York Times

Maupin remains a great storyteller, a magnificently unrepentant liberal, and a wise, witty observer of the differences which make us human

—— Sunday Telegraph

A beautifully told, mysterious story

—— Die Zeit

A daring, poetic, provocative, cleansing novel

—— De Volkskrant

I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language

—— Simon Brett

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work

—— Jane Moore

To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment

—— John Julius Norwich

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

—— Lindsey Davis

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

—— Kathy Lette

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

—— Arabella Weir

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

—— Hugh Laurie

The greatest comic writer ever

—— Douglas Adams

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

—— Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius

—— Ben Elton
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