Claire | January 3, 2012
I was very very excited about reading this Anne Boleyn novel because I have come to know Anne Clinard Barnhill through both The Anne Boleyn Files and Anne Boleyn Fellowship site. I knew, first-hand, just how much research had gone into the writing of this novel so was dying to read Anne’s take on Anne [...]
Claire | August 9, 2011
As someone who has been researching Anne Boleyn full-time for the past two years I’m always apprehensive about reading fictional portrayals of Anne and whether the author’s Anne will fit in with the Anne I’ve come to know from the primary sources. Fortunately, novelist Sandra Byrd made it her mission to tell Anne’s real story [...]
Claire | June 23, 2011
Regular Anne Boleyn Files visitor, Anne Clinard Barnhill, has just sent me the synopsis for her new book “At the Mercy of the Queen: A Novel of Anne Boleyn” which is due to be released in January 2012 by St Martins Press. Here is Anne’s synopsis “A sweeping tale of sexual seduction and intrigue at [...]
Claire | May 30, 2011
To reward myself for a very busy Saturday packing boxes (we’re having building work done on our house) and getting covered with dust, I spent Sunday afternoon and evening curled up on the sofa with “The Falcon Chronicles” by Lauren Elflein, a fictional account of Anne Boleyn’s life. I wasn’t sure whether I was going [...]
Claire | April 26, 2011
Today we have another book review from our regular book reviewer, Niki Incorvia, M.A. Thanks, Niki. The Last Boleyn by Karen Harper Review by: Niki Incorvia I knew very little about Mary Boleyn before I started reading The Last Boleyn, a historical fiction novel by Karen Harper. After finishing this book, I walked away with [...]
Claire | March 18, 2011
Guest review by Niki A. Incorvia, M.A – Thanks, Niki!:- I have primarily read historical fiction books of the Tudor era, until Amazon “suggested” to me Paul F. Zahl’s Five Women of the English Reformation. Zahl includes amongst these women, Anne Boleyn, Anne Askew, Katherine Parr, Jane Grey, and finally, Catherine Willoughby, chosen from those [...]
Claire | March 1, 2011
I had the great pleasure of meeting Elizabeth Kerri Mahon on The Anne Boleyn Experience Tour last year and I was very excited when she told me that she was in the middle of writing a book on ‘scandalous’ women in history, with a chapter dedicated to Anne Boleyn. I made her promise that she [...]
Claire | January 19, 2011
This review of Brandy Purdy’s “The Boleyn Wife” is written by The Anne Boleyn Files visitor, Niki Incorvia – thanks, Niki! N.B. In North America it was published as “The Boleyn Wife” by Brandy Purdy, but in the UK it was published as “The Tudor Wife” by Emily Purdy. The Boleyn Wife is the story [...]
Claire | January 11, 2011
Being under the weather with a bad cough at the end of last week gave me the perfect excuse to curl up on the sofa with my Kindle and blanket to enjoy this latest offering from Robert Parry, author of one of my favourite books “Virgin and the Crab”. In the past I have described [...]
Claire | August 16, 2010
A few weeks ago, I did a post about recent and upcoming historical fiction books and today I’m going to focus on non-fiction history books and biographies of historical characters within the Tudor and Elizabethan periods:- Margaret Beaufort: The Mother of the Tudor Dynasty by Elizabeth Norton – Due to be released in the UK [...]
