If you love the BBC's The White Queen you'll love this.

Previously published as Queen's Gambit, this compellingly chilling novel has now been adapted into a major feature film starring, Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Michelle Williams and Sam Riley.

Meet the woman who survived Henry VIII in Elizabeth Fremantle's Firebrand...

My name is Katherine Parr.

I'm 31 years old and already twice widowed.

I'm in love with a man I can't have, and am about to wed a man no-one would want - for my husband-to-be is none other than Henry VIII, who has already beheaded two wives, cast aside two more, and watched one die in childbirth.

What will become of me once I'm wearing his ring and become Queen of England?

They say that the sharpest blades are sheathed in the softest pouches.
Only time will tell what I am really made of...

Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor historical novels: Firebrand (formerly Queen's Gambit and recently an acclaimed feature film starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law)), Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower. As E.C. Fremantle she has written two historical thrillers: The Poison Bed and The Honey and the Sting. Disobedient, her feminist retelling of the life of seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, won the 2024 Historical Writers Gold Crown Award. She lives in London.