Wolf Hall discussion continuation thread

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Continuing the thread from Telly Addicts, just in time for episode 4

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/2288038-Damian-Lewis-fans-line-up-for-Wolf-Hall-tonight?msgid=52500336#52500336

BoF, have you ever tried Norah Lofts? My favourite histfic writer. I blogged about her recently - can't link cos on phone but if you Google my name and hers you'll find it.

BOF

I really rate AW - have read 'children of England' (about Elizabeth, Mary, Edward and Lady Jane Grey)

also 'lancaster and york' and of course 'The six wives of H8'

Lancaster and York very informative

I've just finished Daughter Of Time- wonderful. I'll definitely follow up with Sunne In Splendour while I'm on a roll. I declare myself a Ricardian .

And I'll definitely check out Norah Lofts now I've read that blogpost, thank you.

I wish I could download all these recommendations at once, but my kindle account is squeaking as it is this month

I don't think anyone finishes DoT not a Ricardian!

Bof have you read We Speak No Treason? Another RIII love in.

The analysis book on the body in the car park (RIii) is very good.

Stop, this is too exciting

The King's Grave? Bought it

The television programme is still available to view on 4OD, btw. The King In The Carpark. I watched it the other day.

Don't get Lofts for Kindle, just look for her in the boxes outside second hand bookshops where they put the 20p books. Easy to find.

Good tip, thank you.

No this one - sure they are similar.!

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00BBWKIKI/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1425937391&sr=1-2&pi=AC_SY200_QL40&keywords=DNA+Richard+iii&dpPl=1&dpID=51vWf7YxLyL&ref=plSrch

I like Norah Lofts too - I really rate her small series about the house in Bury St Edmonds. I've also read a couple of her more traditional historical novels.

Thanks, Knickerful- yours is cheaper. I've returned the other for a refund

Anne 'O Brien does some good historical fiction if you like a purely escapist read along the lines of Phillipa Gregory (not high brow lit tho).

I must admit I'm a bit of a historical lit affecionado, although my tastes admittedly run to the trashy. Suzannah Dunn is another good 'un, her books are suprisingly moving but again not high brow literary stuff like Wolf Hall. Nothing wrong with a good ole genre read though.;)

Trying to write my own historical romance at the moment, set in Tudor England. Wish me luck it'll probably take me a year to complete, I'm a terrible procrastinator...

Good luck with the book, Princess. What date/bit of Tudor England?

Susannah Dunn is a bit of a strange one. She does this thing of very consciously using obviously modern language, to make it feel more immediate. Sometimes this works and it has a certain integrity (after all, it's not like any of us are writing actual Tudor speech) but sometimes I find it impossibly distracting especially when she uses modern metaphors like double take, or talks about Anne Boleyn serving Henry a cream tea.

You're welcome, BOF. I'm reading the Tracy Borman book now!

TheCountess it's set at the time of Henry's romance with Anne but they are not the main characters. I'm trying to give the language an authentic feel so it sounds like how Tudor people might actually speak but of course it's not going to be too accurate as that would be a bit too alienating to the modern reader. It's not a literary type of book it's good old genre fiction, I'm not clever enough to write lit fiction.

I bet Henry would have liked a nice cream tea, mind

Book recommendations - The Lady in the Tower - Alison Weir, The Mistresses of Henry VIII - Kelly Hart, Bastard Prince, Henry VIIIs lost son - Beverley A Murphy.

I've finished the Last Days Of Richard (all a bit speculative), and am thoroughly enjoying The Lady In The Tower, even though I disagree with Alison Weir about TC being the sole architect of Anne's fall.

I went to a great big shopping centre thinking I can get a copy of Bring Up The Bodies but the only bookshop there is shut. After momentary panic I remembered that WH Smith also sell books, if you can find them. So now all is well.

From a standpoint of complete ignorance (apart from having watched the TV series) I would say that it's Henry who is the downfall of Anne.

Yy. Even if TC devised a method, I can't think he'd've come up with the motive - AB had another few child bearing years, at least.

In BUTB (and I think in WH too) TC keeps seeing Wolsey telling him that the King wants a new wife and he'd better jump to it or else ...

Aargh have got to the page about Helen Barre in the Tracy Borman biography and I'm feeling bad for them.

Hillary Mantel has really got me loving these people!