Claire | February 24, 2010
Seeing as this is my Anne Boleyn “Bible”, the book I can’t bear to be without and the one that I use more than any other, it’s funny that I have never actually reviewed it! So, I thought I would correct that glaring omission by reviewing this Anne Boleyn biography.
I think I might be Professor [...]
Claire | February 24, 2010
The full title of this book by Raymond Lamont-Brown is “How Fat Was Henry VIII? And 101 Other Questions on Royal History” and it’s a wonderful book which gives you answers to all those nagging royal history questions. It’s just perfect as a present for history buffs or as a treat for yourself as you’re [...]
Claire | February 11, 2010
With it being the anniversary of Lady Jane Grey’s execution tomorrow I thought it was fitting for me to publish my review of Eric Ives’s biography “Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery”.
If you keep up with my posts on The Anne Boleyn Files, you will know that I am Professor Ives’s number one fan as [...]
Claire | December 9, 2009
“The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Katherine, Mary and Lady Jane Grey” is a non-fiction account of the stories of these three sisters, the times they lived in and the monarchs who reigned in their lifetimes. I was desperate to read this after reading Jeane Westin’s historical novel, “The Virgin’s Daughters”, and [...]
Claire | November 17, 2009
I was very excited when I heard about the release of this book just a few weeks after Alison Weir’s “The Lady in the Tower”, October was a really great month for Anne Boleyn fans! However, I must admit to being rather put off by the publisher’s blurb on Amazon, which said:
“The story of Anne [...]
Claire | October 26, 2009
This new book on Henry VIII and his six wives was published by Amberley Publishing to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accesion to the throne and tells the story of Henry VIII from 1504, when he was a Renaissance Prince and second in line to the throne, right through to his death [...]
Claire | October 7, 2009
It’s here! The long awaited book by Alison Weir has been released in the UK and is being devoured by Anne Boleyn fans and Tudor history buffs.
Weir’s publisher, Jonathan Cape, has been publicising this book as the first book to be entirely devoted to Anne Boleyn’s fall; a little misleading when books like Retha Warnicke’s [...]
Claire | September 1, 2009
Those of you who have just read Philippa Gregory’s “The White Queen” which focused on the story of Elizabeth Woodville, her marriage to Edward IV and the fate of her family, may now want to delve into the real historical story, after all, “The White Queen” is a fictional account of this period of history.
Well, [...]
Claire | July 15, 2009
“The Other Tudors: Henry VIII’s Mistresses and Bastards” by Philippa Jones, and published by New Holland Publishers, is a fascinating read, particularly as I have recently read Kelly Hart’s book on the same topic.
This book, however, takes things much further and really delves into Henry’s love life and also puts forward the theory that Henry [...]
Claire | July 7, 2009
As you all know, I am first and foremost an Anne Boleyn fan but I love Tudor history as a whole and seem to spend all of my spare time reading biographies of other Tudor personalities - people who lived at the same time as Anne.
I’ve just finished reading “Mary Tudor: The First Queen” (known [...]
