For winter Nights » Tudor
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A bookish blog for winter nights and for summer days. The books reviewed are primarily of the Historical Fiction or Science Fiction bent with some Thrillers and Crime thrown in - but there are happy exceptions.
For winter Nights » Tudor
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Headline Review | 2020 (6 August) | 480p | Review copy | Buy the book In 1540 the very young Katheryn Howard, one of Anna of Kleve’s ladies, cousin to Anne Boleyn, caught the roving eye of Henry VIII and her fate was sealed. We’ve now reached the fifth novel in this superb series by ..read more
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HarperCollins | 2022 (20 January) | 464p | Review copy | Buy the book It is 1502 and Henry VII and his queen Elizabeth desperately mourn the loss of their son and firstborn heir, Prince Arthur, so newly married to Katherine of Aragon. It is Lady Joan Guildford’s task to console the Queen, while comforting ..read more
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Headline Review | 2019 (2 May) | 528p | Review copy | Buy the book In 1540 Henry VIII married his fourth wife, here named Anna of Kleve, but it was a marriage that was to last mere months. Henry had fallen in love with Anna’s portrait, painted by the master Holbein, but the reality ..read more
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Katharine Parr must have thought when she buried her second husband that now she could marry for love and not for the advancement of her family but, in 1543, when Katharine caught the eye of an ailing King Henry VIII, her fate was decided and she became his sixth wife. These are dangerous times to ..read more
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Mantle | 2018 (18 October) | 850p | Review copies | Buy the book Tombland is the seventh novel in this fine series to feature Tudor lawyer Matthew Shardlake. Although there are a few references to previous events, Tombland stands well on its own as our journey through the Tudor period continues. Many of you ..read more
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HarperCollins | 2020 (9 January) | 461p | Review copy | Buy the book It’s the first day of 2020 and I could think of no better way to kick off another year of reviews and book love than with The Lady of the Ravens by Joanna Hickson, a book I’ve been longing to read ..read more
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HarperCollins | 2018 (31 May) | 531p | Review copy | Buy the book It is 1471. The Lancastrians have been defeated in battle. Edward IV of York is back on the throne once more and his great rival, Henry VI, is dead, presumed murdered in captivity while Henry’s queen has fled. The last hope ..read more
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1y ago
Titan Books | 2018 (1 May) | 473p | Review copy | Buy the book When County Archaeologist Sage Westfield is called in to excavate a well discovered during a house expansion on the Isle of Wight, it’s a shock to her and to her small team when the bones of a woman and a ..read more
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Hodder & Stoughton | 2018 (9 August) | 404p | Review copy | Buy the book Court of Wolves follows directly on from Sons of the Blood, the first novel in Robyn Young’s New World Rising series, set during the 1480s. Do read Sons of the Blood first. This review assumes you’ve done that. It ..read more