7 books: The Constant Princess**The Virgin's Lover**The Queen's Fool**The Other Boleyn Girl**The Boleyn Inheritance**Virgin Earth**Earthly Joys

Philippa Gregory has been penning compelling works of dramatic historical fiction since the mid-1980s, breaking out with the bestselling Wideacre trilogy and creating a buzz with The Other Boleyn Girl. As fellow author Peter Ackroyd once said of her, "She writes from instinct, not out of calculation, and it shows."