Major broadsheet consumer advertising campaign. Hardback has sold over 13,000 copies since publication in January 2004 Includes a fascinating PS section with an essay, author profile, review round-up and more by writer Fanny Blake. John Guy is THE authority on the Tudor period. His Tudor England (OUP) has sold 250,000 copies to date and is loved by a whole generation of students, graduates and general readers.
John Guy is the author of numerous histories, including Tudor England, which has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and My Heart is My Own, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His new book, A Daughter’s Love, is about Sir Thomas More and his daughter, Margaret Roper. He is a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge and also lectures in the Faculty of History. He became an Honorary Research Professor of the University of St Andrews in 2003.
'Fascinating... A book based on gold-standard research, the kind of thing that puts most popular history writing to shame.' Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday 'Certain to be a bestseller, and deservedly so. Rarely have first-class scholarship and first-class storytelling been so effectively combined.' John Adamson, Daily Telegraph 'An absorbing biography ... meticulously researched... scholarly and intriguing.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'A biography that reads as thrillingly as a detective story, and is rich in details and authoritative in its analysis.' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times
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