Kit Marlowe Fiction
Explore captivating Kit Marlowe fiction with our curated list of books. Dive into thrilling stories and historical adventures inspired by the legendary playwright's life and works.
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Whiskey and Water
by Elizabeth Bear
Ending an age-old war at great cost to himself, Matthew the Magician has been left physically crippled, with his power shattered, but when he finds a young woman brutally murdered by a Fae creature, he must use his role as protector of New York City to bring her killer to justice before his former mentor, Jane Andraste, uses the crime to justify more violence. Reprint.
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Ink and Steel
by Elizabeth Bear
With playwright and spy Kit Marley murdered, dramatist William Shakespeare unsuccessfully takes on the Promethean Club's secret battle against sorcerers out to destroy England, until Marley, resurrected by Faerie enchantment, comes to his aid, but first Kit must find the traitor responsible for his death. Reprint.
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Hell and Earth
by Elizabeth Bear
Employed by the Promethean Club, Kit Marley must draw on all the magic in his control when some of the Prometheans, including England's most powerful mages and aristocrats, conspire to usurp the throne from Queen Elizabeth, in the sequel to Ink and Steel. Reprint.
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Ill Met by Moonlight
by Sarah A. Hoyt
This enchanting debut novel speculates on the identity of William Shakespeare's Dark Lady, and presents a world of fairies and fantasy that is the setting for a tale about the love that set the young Shakespeare's heart ablaze--and aroused greatness within him.
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All Night Awake
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Young Will Shakespeare is having a harder time making it in London than he thought he would, constantly competing with his greatest rival, Christopher Marlowe, for both literary recognition and the heart of Lady Silver.
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Any Man So Daring
by Sarah A. Hoyt
William Shakespeare has become the preeminent playwright of Elizabethan England, but his success comes with a price--his son Hamnet has disappeared in the realm of the Elven King, and Will must face the powers of darkness to rescue him.
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The School of Night
by Alan Wall
Sean Tallow has only two overriding desires in life. One is to step into the shoes of his glamorous friend Daniel Pagett, and the other is to establish the truth about the School of Night, a shadowy group of Elizabethans who clustered around Sir Walter Ralegh. Tallow pursues the School of Night and its entanglement in the question of whether the man from Stratford-on-Avon could really have written the plays ascribed to William Shakespeare. If he didn't, then who did? The harder he studies, the less light is thrown on this troublesome question, and the more his interest in the School of Night becomes a grim fixation. Just when it seems Tallow is ready to give up the quest, day becomes night and everything he once believed is turned on its head as he enters a fearful world where there are no longer any rules except survival. Like the original members of the School of Night, he finds himself treading on the wrong side of the law.
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The Grid
by Jeremy Reed
Christopher Marlowe and his Elizabethan set are reincarnated in a near-future dystopian London on the brink of destruction, battling AIDS and trapped by their shared past. A typically original and erotically charged novel by one of Britain's most idiosyncratic writers, The Grid is set in the not-too-distant future, when Britain is ruled by the autocratic Commissar, London has merged with Tokyo and police use flying cars to combat rogue Boeing pilots doing kamikaze stunts over the capital's skyscrapers. Amid the dystopian chaos a group of men attend a mysterious hypnotherapy clinic called the Grid to receive treatment for AIDS--but as the therapy progresses they begin to realize that they are, in fact, reincarnations of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and other members of the dramatists' Elizabethan circle, including Nicholas Skeres, Henry Wriothesley, and Thomas Walsingham. As the past merges with the present they find themselves embarking on a journey that leads to the resolution of one of the all-time great literary mysteries--the murder of Marlowe in a Deptford tavern in 1593--as well as one the most extraordinary finales in recent British fiction.
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The Intelligencer
by Leslie Silbert
London, 1593: It is three weeks before the murder of Christopher Marlowe, playwright and spy in Queen Elizabeth I's secret service -- a crime that remains unsolved to this day. Marlowe is hoping to find his missing muse as he sets off on a new intelligence assignment...and closes in on the secret that will seal his fate. New York City, present day: Renaissance scholar turned private eye Kate Morgan investigates a shocking heist and murder involving a mysterious, antique manuscript recently unearthed in central London. What secret lurks in those yellowed, ciphered pages...and how, centuries later, could it drive someone to kill? Propelling us from the shadows of the sixteenth-century underworld to the chambers of a clandestine U.S. intelligence unit, from the glitter of the Elizabethan court to the catacombs of ancient Rome, The Intelligencer's dual narratives twist, turn, and collide as they race toward a stunning finale.
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Tamburlaine Must Die
by Louise Welsh
Presents a tale of historical mystery and intrigue centered around Christopher Marlowe, the great playwright, called by the Queen to London on an urgent mission where he finds danger aplenty in the halls of power.
