Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Traitors of the Tower	Alison Weir	Produced as part of the 2010 Quick Reads Series, Alison Weir's Traitors of the Tower is a wonderful introduction to this brilliant historianMore than four hundred years ago, seven people – five of th…	OL15189301W
The Wars of the Roses	Alison Weir	Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British monarchy. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched on London. Old nob…	OL15840877W
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the murder of Lord Darnley	Alison Weir	This book is an excursion into Britain's bloodstained, power-obsessed past. The author's investigation into Lord Darnley's murder is set against one of the most dramatic periods in English history. I…	OL18172658W
Mary Boleyn	Alison Weir	Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's seco…	OL18821956W
Anne Boleyn	Alison Weir	Henry VIII is risking his marriage and the political strategies of Cardinal Wolsey in his obsession to marry Anne Boleyn, who does not welcome the king's advances and loathes the cardinal for breakin…	OL19669293W
The marriage game	Alison Weir	"In this compelling novel of Tudor drama and suspense, acclaimed author Alison Weir brings to life one of England's most scandalous royal love affairs: the romance between the 'Virgin Queen' Elizabet…	OL19993204W
Katherine of Aragon, the true queen	Alison Weir	"Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII's wives.…	OL20027051W
The captive queen	Alison Weir	"It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty, attended by only a small armed escort, is riding like the wind southwards through what is now France. She is leaving behind her crown, her two yo…	OL21535435W
Mary Boleyn	Alison Weir	Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's seco…	OL24177370W
The lady in the Tower	Alison Weir	"The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIIIs second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in English history ... Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 2 May 1536, and tried…	OL24184367W
The Lady Elizabeth	Alison Weir	Now, in her second novel, Alison Weir goes to the heart of Tudor England at its most dangerous and faction-riven in telling the story of Elizabeth I before she became Queen. The towering capricious f…	OL24694690W
The Lady Elizabeth	Alison Weir	Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison…	OL497241W
Henry VIII	Alison Weir	"Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent - and dangerous - courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed,…	OL497244W
Innocent Traitor	Alison Weir	This is the fictionalized story of Lady Jane Grey, the great niece of Henry VIII who was queen for 9 days after Henry's heir, his son Edward VI, died. She did not want to be Queen of England, but she…	OL7916311W