Power and Glory by Alexander Larman
/A new book about the final years of England’s King George Vi
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A new book about the final years of England’s King George Vi
Read MoreA new book charts the long literary life of Chaucer’s most popular character.
Read MoreA big, bustling new history of the Tudor age.
Read MoreWhat did the Tudors see, taste, hear, and smell, and what did they think of it all?
Read MoreThe postwar history of great English country houses, with plenty of twists and turns.
Read MoreA definitively researched explanation for a phenomena many of us still don’t understand.
Read MoreHanley’s assessment of the various roles Matilda filled in her life is uniformly thought-provoking.
Read MoreIn Anna of Kleve, Weir crafts an intriguingly multifaceted portrait of this oddest of all English queens. Open Letters asked her some questions about the challenges of this latest installment in the “Six Tudor Queens” series.
Read MoreAn immensely readable popular biography of Henry VI, warmly sympathetic to the tormented figure at its center.
Read MoreA big, bouncily-written biography of Bess, the Countess of Shrewsbury—a fascinating figure from the era.
Read MoreMackay’s intensely painstaking excavation of what life was like for an infamous set of Tudor courtiers is eye-opening.
Read MoreA historical novel about Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown, and the women who made it.
Read MoreA surprisingly dark addition to the nearly endless library of Winston Churchill biographies.
Read MoreResearch reveals new details about the conspiracy to kill King James I by the Duke of Buckingham
Read MoreAdams has written a lively-yet-scholarly modern epic history the tale deserves.
Read MoreFull of atmospheric historical details, this novel about King Henry VIII’s third wife portrays the dramas of the most notorious court in English history.
Read MoreA direct and engaging narrative line runs throughout The Black Prince, making it an involving reading experience.
Read MoreThis is the colorful material insanely prolific historical novelist Victoria Holt used for one of her best novels, 1979's My Enemy, the Queen.
Read MoreA readable and stimulating history of London during the final years of King Charles II.
Read MoreAdam Nicolson’s new book Quarrel with the King is a searching, thoughtful brief study of the earls of Pembroke (and their often formidable wives and sisters) through two hundred years, but there is another family drama, somewhat less ancient but no less fascinating, unfolding just beneath its surface.
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