Wolf Hall
If you love history and if you relish smart historical novels, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a book you do not want to miss. Mantel retells the familiar saga of King Henry VIII’s desire to father a son and his subsequent struggles to break England away from Catholicism and Rome, but she does so from […]
The Boleyn King
This alternate history novel takes us back to Tudor England’s royal family in the mid-sixteenth century. In reality, Anne Boleyn bore a female child to King Henry VIII. Unable to produce a male heir and accused of adultery, Anne was beheaded along with members of her family. Ultimately, her child became Queen Elizabeth I. But […]