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May 2017 Book News
Non-fiction Tudor Monarchs: Lives in Letters Hardcover – 1 August 2017 (US) & 11 May 2017 (UK) The Tudor period (1485-1603) is a story of drama, intrigue and tumultuous change but also of triumphs...
View ArticleCatherine of Braganza: Charles II’s Restoration Queen Giveaway
Thanks to the lovely publisher Chronos Books, I am giving away one copy of Catherine of Braganza: Charles II’s Restoration Queen by Sarah-Beth Watkins today, the release date! Please note that while...
View ArticleMarie Antoinette’s Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie by Will...
This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family’s arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison....
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The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest...
This article titled “The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty by Tracy Borman – review” was written by Lucy Lethbridge, for The Observer on Sunday 29th...
View ArticleAnne Boleyn in London by Lissa Chapman Book Review
Romantic victim? Ruthless other woman? Innocent pawn? Religious reformer? Fool, flirt and adulteress? Politician? Witch? During her life, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s ill-fated second queen, was...
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The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio by Hubert Wolf review – the true story of a convent...
This article titled “The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio by Hubert Wolf review – the true story of a convent in scandal” was written by Eamon Duffy, for The Guardian on Saturday 29th August 2015 07.00 UTC In...
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Wolf Hall; Bring Up the Bodies – review
This article titled “Wolf Hall; Bring Up the Bodies – review” was written by Susannah Clapp, for The Observer on Sunday 12th January 2014 00.07 UTC These are near-perfect adaptations. That's to say,...
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June 2017 Book News
The King Who Had To Go: Edward Vlll, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis Hardcover – 13 June 2017 (US) & 13 October 2016 (UK) In 1936, a constitutional crisis in the...
View ArticleCatherine of Braganza by Sarah-Beth Watkins Book Review
Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, married Charles II in 1662 and became the merry monarch’s Restoration queen. Yet life for her was not so merry – she put up with the king’s many mistresses...
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The Greedy Queen: Eating With Victoria review – nothing dainty about these...
The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria is available now in the UK and in the US. This article titled “The Greedy Queen: Eating With Victoria review – nothing dainty about these dishes” was written by...
View ArticleIsabella of Castile – Europe’s First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett Book Review
A major biography of the queen who transformed Spain into a principal global power, and sponsored the voyage that would open the New World. In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most...
View ArticleTudor Monarchs: Lives in Letters by Andrea Clarke Book Review
The Tudor period (1485-1603) was one of the most tumultuous and transformative eras in English history. It was period of drama and intrigue, as well as great triumphs and progress, such as Henry VIII’s...
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July 2017 Book News
Shadows of a Princess Paperback – 27 July 2017 (UK) & 25 July 2017 (US) Reissued for the twentieth anniversary of Diana’s death, this sensational bestseller is an explosive account of her life,...
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The Duchess: The Untold Story by Penny Junor – digested read
This article titled “The Duchess: The Untold Story by Penny Junor – digested read” was written by John Crace, for The Guardian on Sunday 2nd July 2017 16.00 UTC For much of the final decade of the...
View ArticleThe Warrior Queen: The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred the...
Æthelflæd, eldest daughter of Alfred “the Great,” has gone down in history as an enigmatic and almost legendary figure. To the popular imagination, she is the archetypal warrior queen, a Medieval...
View ArticleRaising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting by Carolyn Harris Book Review
How royal parents dealt with raising their children over the past thousand years, from keeping Vikings at bay to fending off paparazzi. William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are setting...
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August 2017 Book News
Diana & Dodi: The Truth Hardcover – 31 Aug 2017 (UK & US) Michael Cole is the only person who knew all three victims of the fatal Pont de l’Alma road tunnel crash that occurred in Paris, in...
View ArticleQueenship in England: 1308–1485 Gender and Power in the Late Middle Ages by...
Between 1308 and 1485, nine women were married to kings of England. Their status as queen offered them the opportunity to exercise authority in a manner that was denied to other women of the time. This...
View ArticleFalcon’s Rise – The Early Years of Anne Boleyn by Natalia Richards Book Review
The day before her death, Anne Boleyn remembers a journey that changed her life. She recalls how, as a young girl, she used her wits to secure a place at the prestigious Court of Margaret of Austria,...
View ArticleIn Haste with Aloha – Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma 1881 – 1885 Book Review
This ambitious volume assembled by scholar David W. Forbes features a collection of ninety previously unpublished letters, as well as excerpts from two diaries, written between 1881 and 1885 by...
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