Edward VI: The Lost King Of England – Chris Skidmore
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery – Eric Ives
Tudor: The Family Story – Leana De Lisle
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey – Leanda de Lisle

After watching The White Queen series, I searched out the following for Wars Of The Roses biographies most were recommended from here

Elizabeth Woodville: The Mother of the Princes in the Tower – David Baldwin
Richard III – David Baldwin
Edward IV – Charles Ross

I also plan to get

Anne Neville: Richard III’s Tragic Queen by Amy Licence when it comes out in paperback to help complete my York King and Queen series.

And there is a book coming out in March called:

The Third Plantagenet: George Duke Of Clarence, Richard III”s Brother by John Ashdown-Hill

that I plan to purchase, to help me with my stageplay that is stuck in my head

I also have every Alison Weir book on the Tudor dynasty and the 2 on the Wars Of The Roses period (and plan to get her one of Elizabeth of York). But I admit I can’t really recommend them as they are more to just look pretty and complete on the shelves and I haven’t read them yet. LOL

I’ve just brought The Tudor Queen, by Anna Hickson. I’ve not read it yet so I can’t tell you if it’s good or bad. from the cover it’s about Catherine of Valois.
Currently reading the constant Princess by SWMNBN, as her books go (and we all know how her books go from being funny ha ha to funny peculiar, to downright pants at the drop of a hat.) this one isn’t too bad. I guess her brain must have been fully charged to help her to think straight to write it.
Olga you can breathe a sigh of relief this book won’t be used for anything other than reading.

I have all of SWMNBN Tudor books, well all bar one. (The Virgin’s Lover) I did have it, but I gave it to the boys (Chipmunks) to read, and they enjoyed it throughly (Much to Olga’s disgust) and I believe Janet gave her copy to her brother’s to use for target practise. I could’nt get on with The Other Queen. IMO, SWMNBN seemed to somehow lose her way in writing it. Good old Bess of Hardwick she was a very tough wily old bird.

Of all of SWMNBN books I must admit I do like the Red and White Queen’s books, I going to get her White Princess book like to see how she’s to portray or slaughter Lizzy of York.

I must admit I’m very partial to Jean Plaidy’s books my favourite there being The Thistle and the Rose.
The trouble is that reading historical fiction books can cloud your mind somewhat in believing what is written/read is the whole truth of the matter, so I tend to read a few fictional novels and then balance them out with factual novels i find weighing up the two interpretations can kind of get you to the truth of the real person that you have read about in both genres.

That’s exactly what I do Sharon. That’s what I meant when I mentioned SWMNBN books to you.. her historical facts are completely muddled sometimes, but when you’ve read it you want to find out the truth so you then go and find a factual book about the person you have just read about.
When I was school history was something I found annoying, it wasn’t so much the subject matter it was the way the teacher taught it. Basically it was “there’s a book read it.” and you weren’t allowed to question what was in it, even if you knew what was written was wrong. Basically the book was right and that was that.
Which again is the good thing about fiction and non fiction books it teaches us to question what we have read.
which is where this foru is all good for us because we have our own opinions about genres in history and one of us actually ight of hit on the truth somewhere along the line when we offer our opinions.
Louise’s opinion is certainly very interesting when it comes to George B as is Claire R’s opinion Anne B.
I’m sure if we collected together all our opinions and wrote them all down in a book, we would probably somewhere pretty close to what these our forebares were really like. Although my opinions of old stinky wobble bum, would probably get censored out if it was published. LOL

I can only think that the page with our opinions about Lard arse would be something like this Henry was a B****** Wife murdering C***
Lots of B, C, D, F, with lots 0f pretty stars, squiggles and angry smilies..

I can recommend Anna Whitlocks book I found it extremely interesting. Changed my perception of Mary Tulip for sure. She just tried to do the best she thought for a her people, but because of her stubborn refusal to move with the times she screwed things up badly..

Loades or Baldwin for the Mary Tudor book Sharon?

Although I will add I recommend anything by Baldwin, I have all of his books here, I have yet to read the one on Elizabeth Woodville though.

Avarice –
Anne of Cleves (my favourite girl) by Elizabeth Norton.
Antonia Fraser – Six Wives as well. That book is a bit dated but worth a read, fantastic Anne of Cleves section.
Henry VIII by John Matusiak, if you loathe Henry as much as I do. Not many wives in that one though.
Henry VIII, both books by Robert Hutchinson.
Boleyn Women by Elizabeth Norton. Must read.

I can’t even begin on the Plantagenets. Dan Jones doesn’t seem to be my cup of tea. Actually I am not big on “overview” books I prefer bios and straight military histories, even of military history bores holes in my brain.

I am probably going to look at Ian Mortimers books for Bolingbroke/Henry IV, Henry V and Edward III.
All of Bill’s recommendations are great books. Michael Hicks also has one on George Plantagenet but it is killing me (very dry), the Ashdown-Hill book on George was really good. Josephine Wilkinson’s Princes in the Tower, the most comprehensive on that topic.

Anything in Yale English monarchs is supposed to be excellent, I have both Charles Ross’ book on Edward IV and Richard III. I also have some others I have not read, I am planning on getting the Richard II in that series.

Avarice,
You are very welcome. I just posted on another page some of my thoughts on Mary. She was not a bad woman, and I hope what I posted doesn’t come off that way. I would never want to show any disrespect for her.
The book I was talking about was, The Prince In The Tower, by Josephine Wilkinson. It’s pretty good. There are some questions that I want to know the answer to before I die….Like who really killed JFK, and who killed those boys? Were the boys killed, or spirited away? HAH! Good luck, right?
I don’t read PG at all. She scares me.
That is a ton of books. They will keep you busy. On Mary…My favorite was Linda Porter’s book, easy reading, but like I said they are all good.