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5:42 am
October 28, 2011
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I’m betting this one won’t have Northumberland switching Edward’s corpse 
I have a two of his books here but I haven’t read more than a couple of chapters of Thomas beckett. I was enjoying it though. Susan Higginbotham posted this up on Facebook last night and got me all excited. May 2013
5:52 am
October 28, 2011
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Ah I should have started an upcoming books thread. Susan has a non-fiction book by the History Press coming out
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Also apparently they’re doing a paperback print of Alison Sim’s Master and Servant’s. Although my Tudor Housewife appears to be missing all of the photos, I have emailed History Press to ask about it, but I might just buy this used in hardcover. Looks really interesting
http://www.thehistorypress.co……land1.aspx
October is of course, Starkey month Maybe I should build that shrine….
11:47 am
December 5, 2009
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I’ve only just noticed this thread. Thanks for the heads up, Olga. I’ll definitely be getting the John Guy book. The only other book I know of which deals exclusively with Henry’s children is Weir’s, so it will be nice to read a book by a more trustworthy historian. Weir discounts Mary Boleyn’s children being Henry’s but in her book on Mary Boleyn she changes her mind to argue that Catherine was the King’s daughter. Fair enough, but she suggests that she came up with new evidence to prove the paternity of Catherine. However, you would think if that were true that she would have included it in the book!
2:32 am
November 18, 2010
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Olga said
Also apparently they’re doing a paperback print of Alison Sim’s Master and Servant’s. .
I must be tired I read that aas John Simm’s Master and was wondering what the Dr Who connection could be.
It's always bunnies.
1:52 pm
February 24, 2012
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All I can say is that I’m glad Christmas is coming. More books to order.
3:31 pm
October 28, 2011
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LOL Anyanka!
I haven’t had my second reading of Mary Boleyn yet Louise, so I need to read it again to actually retain all of the infromation. She was pretty much calling Mary a tart in her atrocious Six Wives so she is back-pedalling on a few things. Actually I didn’t mind the Children of England but by the time I read that I knew a reasonable enough amount to not be tricked by her.
9:06 am
October 28, 2011
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Ah Loades is releasing a couple more next year. One on jane Seymour!
http://www.fishpond.com.au/Boo…..1445611570
And on Henry, although I’m not sure if it’s a re-issue
http://www.fishpond.com.au/Boo…..1445607047
They’ve re-issued his book on Mary Tudor
3:11 pm
February 16, 2009
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He’s also got one coming out soon on Catherine Howard so he’s a busy chap. Did you mention that already, I’m a bit behind on the forum.
Debunking the myths about Anne Boleyn
5:00 pm
October 28, 2011
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No Claire, I hadn’t, thanks for pointing it out. Amberley, of course 
Because they haven’t published enough biographies on Jane Seymour or Cat Howard lately.
5:17 am
January 9, 2010
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Olga said
No Claire, I hadn’t, thanks for pointing it out. Amberley, of course
That could almost be their tagline
Oh dear, one on Jane S. and another on Catherine H. Can’t say I’ve thought particularly highly of David Loades’ recent work but still, they would look so good with the rest of the collection!
4:12 pm
October 28, 2011
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Someone please kill me, because Amberley has republished that horrible Anne Boleyn biography written by Norah Lofts
http://www.amberleybooks.com/s…..5606194%26
That is seriously one of the worst books I have read in my life. That blurb is totally misleading, as far as I remember she spends all of the biography accusing Anne of being an actual witch. I don’t remember there being any “hapless pawn” discussion.
2:41 am
October 28, 2011
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I just had a look at Fishpond for the Starkey book supposed to be out this month and they’ve bumped the release date up to September 2014 
Book Depository has it as unavailable and there is no info on Amazon either.
2:53 am
June 15, 2012
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Olga said
Someone please kill me, because Amberley has republished that horrible Anne Boleyn biography written by Norah Lofts
http://www.amberleybooks.com/s…..5606194%26
That is seriously one of the worst books I have read in my life. That blurb is totally misleading, as far as I remember she spends all of the biography accusing Anne of being an actual witch. I don’t remember there being any “hapless pawn” discussion.
Oh good grief. I remember that one…it must be 20 odd years since I read it but I still remember it was awful. Norah Lofts was a novelist and should have stuck with what she did best – fiction.
4:20 am
January 9, 2010
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I’ve got the Norah Lofts one that I picked up from a second hand book store. Only read it once, though it does have some nice pictures! And who mentioned republishing any old book no matter how inaccurate to cash in on the Tudor craze?!!! Sheesh.
Not surprised about the Starkey book – it seems to get pushed back a year every year 
4:02 pm
October 28, 2011
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After reading that book I actually thought Lofts must have been a bit demented 
I can’t find any information about the book Bella, I just saw something on Amazon saying 2013. I’m glad I didn’t pre-order. But I’m so disappointed
11:28 pm
February 16, 2009
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Ah, yes, Anne Boleyn the hare in the church! That’s in Lofts isn’t it?
Debunking the myths about Anne Boleyn
10:58 am
January 3, 2012
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Olga said
After reading that book I actually thought Lofts must have been a bit demented
I can’t find any information about the book Bella, I just saw something on Amazon saying 2013. I’m glad I didn’t pre-order. But I’m so disappointed
I’ve read a couple of Norah Lofts books and I agree she does tend to havve a somewhat fevered imagination Olga. I don’t know if it’s just me or thinks this but for the first couple of chapters her books seem to be ok even if they are a little taxing, but then it almost as if she’s either been at the bottle, taken some illegal substance or maybe even both, and her books seem to deceend into some sort of wierd fantasy land. Where Fairies and goblins seem to have crawled into her brain and are working the controls
Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod
11:53 am
October 28, 2011
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That’s the one Claire!
Fevered imaginations don’t bother me when people are writing fiction Bo, but this one was supposed to be non-fiction. It’s more wildly fictional than anything I have read on Anne, including fiction. I have no idea what Amberley were thinking republishing it, it is so dated, and it is in fact ludicrous.
Bella is right it has really nice pictures which is why I kept it But I bet the reprint doesn’t have the pictures in it.
