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Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
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Winner of THE HW FISHER BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZESPECTATOR, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR’Imagine Wolf Hall rewritten by John le Carré … gripping … a rare achievement’ Tom Holland, GuardianIt is 1501. Henry VII has won the throne of England through luck, guile and ruthlessness. But for many he remains a usurper. Now, his elder son is to marry, in a wedding upon which the fate of the country, and the entire Tudor dynasty, will hang …’A masterpiece. Rich, resonant and utterly compelling’ Helen Castor, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year’Gripping … brilliant … The enigmatic Henry is brought thrillingly to life as one of the most unlikely but tenacious kings ever to wear the English crown’ Dan Jones, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year’Thrilling and sinister’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year’Enthralling … Penn captures the weirdness, the ferocity, and a glint of unexpected tenderness’ The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year
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| Weight | 0.34 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 2.6 × 13 × 19.4 cm |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141986603 |
| About The Author | Thomas Penn's bestselling Winter King was a Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Sunday Times and BBC History, and was awarded the H. W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize. He has a PhD in late fifteenth and early sixteenth century history from Clare College, Cambridge, and writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books. |
A brilliant debut … this impressive book will certainly become the definitive study of our strangest, most mysterious, king | |
| Other text | Stunning … effortlessly vivid prose … a revelation. [Penn's] focus is on the last, fear-filled decade of [Henry VII's] reign, but his sinuously coiling chapters seamlessly unfold the past as well as the present of his protagonists … [He] has pulled off a rare feat: a brilliant and haunting evocation of the Tudor world, with irresistible echoes of the age of fear in which we now live |
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