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 | 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 | September 14, 2010
“1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII” is a wonderful book by historian Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, former Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace and now a lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. I thoroughly enjoyed this book because it’s nothing like the other Henry VIII books, it looks at the [...]
Claire | May 1, 2010
Because this book is an Anne Boleyn book, I have actually reviewed it over at The Anne Boleyn Files. Here is the beginning of my review and you can click on the “Read more…” to read it in full. There has been lots of controversy over this new Anne Boleyn biography because, unlike other modern [...]
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 [...]
