Philippa Gregory

Philippa’s bestselling novels, The Other Boleyn Girl, The White Queen and The Red Queen have celebrated the extraordinarily strong and clever women who have shaped our national history over the centuries.

We are delighted to welcome Philippa Gregory to Ely to celebrate the publication of her new historical novel The King’s Curse. Told in luminous prose and lively detail, The King’s Curse turns our attention to Margaret Pole, one of the few members of the Plantagenet House to survive the Wars of the Roses. Once a badge of honour, the name of her family now means that Margaret is in deadly danger- and it will take all of her wit and ingenuity to survive…