Book Reviews

Our reviews cover recent publications and older books that have stood the test of time in this crowded field. We will indicate whether they are a good introduction, or an in-depth exploration of a subject.

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Young Elizabeth

Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I

Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders

Tudor Wales

Henry VIII’s Last Love

Beaulieu in Tudor and Stuart Times 1500 – 1673

Jasper Tudor: Godfather of the Tudor Dynasty

Henry VIII and the Men who Made Him

The Fallen Angel

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I

Jasper Tudor: Dynasty Maker

The Queen's Agent

God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England

The Waiting Game

Gloriana

King & Collector

Sixteenth Century Readers, Fifteenth Century Books

John Knox

Elizabeth I and her Circle

Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives

The Rise of Thomas Cromwell

Sister Queens

Fatal Rivalry: Flodden 1513

Shakespeare's Wife

Game of Queens

The Tudors in Love

Discovering Tudor London

The Final Year of Anne Boleyn

Charles Brandon: Henry VIII’s Closest Friend

My Heart is My Own

A Daughter's Love

The Son that Elizabeth I Never Had

Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery

Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love

The Hollow Crown

Freydal, Medieval Games

The White King: Charles, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

Cecily Neville: Mother of Kings

Elizabeth of York: the Forgotten Tudor Queen

The King is Dead

After Elizabeth

Tudor: The Family Story

Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth

Among the Wolves of Court

Inside the Tudor Court

Wolsey: The Life of King Henry VIII’s Cardinal

The Tudors

In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII

Catherine Parr: Wife, Widow, Mother, Survivor. The Story of the Last Wife of Henry VIII

The Illustrated Six Wives of Henry VIII

Sisters to the King

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

Katherine the Queen: the Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr

Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots

Flodden: A Scottish Tragedy

The Field of Cloth of Gold

Wolsey

Mary, Tudor Princess

So High a Blood

Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion

The Palace

Young and Damned and Fair

Tudor King in All But Name

Richard III: Brother, Protector, King

Bosworth: the Birth of the Tudors

Death and the Virgin

Britain’s Tudor Maps: County by County

Elizabeth I's Final Years

The Challenge to the Crown (Volume I)

Crown of Blood

Uncrowned Queen

Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen

Isabella of Castile

The Lady Penelope

The Wisest Fool

Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession

Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen

Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets

Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen

Katharine Parr: the Sixth Wife

In the Shadow of Queens

Elizabeth of York

Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown

Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots

Katharine of Aragon

Five Women of the English Reformation