Philippa Gregory is a historian and novelist renowned for combining rich research with powerful storytelling.
Her novels have sold millions of copies worldwide and been adapted for stage, television and film.
Gregory's new novel is Boleyn Traitor.
At People magazine she tagged eight favorite Tudor books, including:
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirRead about the other titles on Gregory's list.
There are many very fine historians working on the Tudors. Eric Ives, David Starkey, David Loades, GR Elton, Amy Licence, Suzannah Lipscombe, Gareth Russell, Eamon Duffy who have led an explosion of Tudor scholarship and much of it is genuinely new research and thinking. A great place to start is Alison Weir’s Six Wives, which encompasses all the detail which such a pace that you can read it almost like a novel.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII is among Rebecca Jane Stokes's top ten books for people who loved Wolf Hall.
--Marshal Zeringue
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