Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write – the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. In this vivid, lively book, history has never been more readable.
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A tremendously vivid, page-turning and plausible novel that depicts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the most spirited, independent and courageous of Henry’s queens, as viewed from both the bedrooms and the kitchens of the Tudor court.
The first instalment of a captivating trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.
An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day.
A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused – the tragedy of Mary Tudor.
David Starkey’s ‘Monarchy’ charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century.
