Tudor History Lovers discussion

What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like to have as our Group Read in July?

If it's in a series, can it be easily read as a stand-alone? If not, you might want to nominate the first book in the series, or the most recent book in it the group has not read together.

Can't remember what we've already read as a group? (Sometimes I can't, either.) There's a "group-reads" shelf on the group's Bookshelf.

Two nominations to a person, please.

Bring Up The Bodies-Hilary Mantel
Three Sisters, Three Queens-Phillippa Gregory

Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile Julia Fox
The Lady in the Tower Jean Plaidy

The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas - Alison Weir
Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel

We've already read:

1. Bring Up the Bodies (August 2015)
2. Three Sisters, Three Queens (October 2016)
3. Sister Queens (February 2015)
4. The Lost Tudor Princess (February 2016)

(Those threads remain open.)

So feel free to make more nominations.

I nominate The Queen's Rival by Diane Haeger and The Tudor Bride by Joanna Hickson.

I am looking for a second to nominate.

Have we read Anne Boleyn A Kings Obsession
By Alison Weir?

Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery Eric Ives.

Anne Boleyn A kings Obsession by Alison Weir

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard by Gareth Russell

I will nominate and .

I also nominate Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by Alison Weir

What about Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty?

I'd like to nominate "Lady In The Tower" by Jean Plaidy.
And "Innocent Traitor" by Alison Weir (about Lady Jane Grey).

:)

I'm really looking forward to reading Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard by Gareth Russell

and hoping it is okay to nominate my most recent Tudor novel, Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters

Utterly thrilled with its latest review:

https://www.madeglobal.com/news/

Does "Falling Pomegranates" have anything to to with Katherine of Aragon" ? The symbol of Spain at that time was often the pomegranate.

Yes - it is the first novel of my planned series about her life. The first novel is told through the POV of her tutor, Beatriz Galindo, and explores the forces that shaped Katherine of Aragon (or Catalina as she was known to her family) during her growing up years at the court of her mother, Isabel of Castile.

Oh Wow ! Sounds really interesting ! I've read a bit about Katherine's childhood at her parent's court and I think it's one of the most interesting periods of her life. She was very much under the influence of her mother, the remarkable Isabella of Castile.

I'd also like to nominate Anne Boleyn A Kings Obsession
By Alison Weir
It was just released May 16, 2017

That's already been nominated, Stephanie - if you want to nominate something else. (Seconds aren't required.)

Ok. Sorry. Thanks!

No problem. Just don't want to see folks "wasting" their nominations on something that's already nominated.

If anyone wants to make a last-minute nomination, now is a good time to do so; I'll probably be closing nominations and starting a poll later today.

Well, I think I will nominate Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Tracy BormanThe Children of Henry VIII by John Guy.

And with that I will close nominations, and create a poll.

The poll is here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1... . Or on the front page of the group.

The current leader is Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession - but not by a huge margin.

The poll is only open the rest of today - and currently we have a tie! Between Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession, and Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty.

The winner, by 1 vote: Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession.

We'll be discussing it here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... .