Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns
By: Claire Martin
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Heirs of The Making of the Boleyns uncovers the story and the family behind England's most obsesse…
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1. A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII.
By: Sarah Helm
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Once rumored to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny, Vera Atkins climbed he… read more
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- nonfiction
2. The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court
By: Anna Whitelock
5.00
Format: 646 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart … read more
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3. Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
By: Tracy Borman
2.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his ques… read more
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4. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- tudor period
5. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
6. The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)
By: Alison Weir
4.03
Format: 593 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of t… read more
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- tudor period
7. The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
By: Gareth Russell
4.21
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred y… read more
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- tudor period
8. The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case
By: Philippa Langley
3.67
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1483, Edward V (age twelve) and his brother Richard, Duke of York (age nine), disappeared from t… read more
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- nonfiction
- tudor period
9. The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty
By: Sarah Gristwood
3.71
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how t… read more
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- nonfiction
- tudor period
10. Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown
By: Nicola Tallis
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive biography of the young Elizabeth I in over twenty years—drawing on a rich vari… read more
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- tudor period
11. The Final Year of Anne Boleyn
By: Natalie Grueninger
4.32
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. She was… read more
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- tudor period
"Try me good king, but let me have a lawful trial, and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and judges… My last and only request shall be, that myself may only bear the burden of your grace’s d…"-Natalie Grueninger, The Final Year of Anne Boleyn
12. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
By: Tracy Borman
4.26
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- tudor period
13. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
By: Leah Redmond Chang
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Sisters Under the Rising Sun
By: Heather Morris
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more
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15. The Kingdom of Sweets
By: Erika Johansen
3.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author of the Queen of the Tearling series, Erika Johansen, journeys to a new kingdom i… read more
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"Names are only a lessening, child. They do not describe us. Before my real life began, I was enslaved, but I have left that time behind. In the years since, I have been called many things by many peo…"-Erika Johansen, The Kingdom of Sweets
16. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
By: Joanne Paul
4.17
Format: 506 pages, Hardcover
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more
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17. Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns
By: Claire Martin
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Heirs of The Making of the Boleyns uncovers the story and the family behind England's most obsesse… read more
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18. Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries
By: Sarah Gristwood
4.30
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A captivating collection of extracts from women’s diaries, looking back over four centuries to disc… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Henry VIII’s True Daughter: Catherine Carey, A Tudor Life
By: Wendy J. Dunn
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The lives of Tudor women often offer faint but fascinating footnotes on the pages of history. The l… read more
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20. Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy
By: Conor Byrne
4.25
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
'I have always abhorred to draw in question the title of the crown, so many disputes have been alre… read more
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21. Into the Ranks of the Deceived (The Lady Rochford Saga #1)
By: Danielle Marchant
3.22
Format: 97 pages, Kindle Edition
Jane Parker is destined for greatness. As the daughter of Henry Parker, Lord Morley, she was prepar… read more
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