Please help fuel my Tudor addiction

[IvaNighSpare]

(have posted this in both fiction and non fiction)

I'm currently working my way rapidly through my DVD box-set of The Tudors and it has fired my interest in the actual history of the times, particularly during Henry VIII's reign.
Could anyone reccommend any books that make interesting reading that don't read like school history books [yawn] and are truer to the facts than the efforts of Phillippa Gregory?

Thanks

This period of history is my favourite to read about.

Can't recommend any factual books on it but can certainly recommend some novels.

Brief Gaudy Hour by Margaret Campbell Barnes- it's about Anne Boleyn's rise to Queen and gives a more indepth look at Anne Boleyn rather than how she is often painted as a scheming bitch.

Dear Heart How Like You This? By Wendy J Dunn- again about Anne Boleyn and her love for Thomas Wyatt and his for her alongside of relationship with henry.

Innocent traitor by Alison Weir- about tragic lady Jane Grey.

The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George is supposed to be very good too but this one I haven't read.

Like I said all these are novels but may not be 100% on facts.

I was so looking forward to the Tudors but couldn't watch it because I thought it was so badly cast. They guy who plays henry is very sexy but so unlike what Henry was that I turned off.

Know this post was from a while ago but hopefully you might still get it.
I also have a bit of an obsession about the Tudors as well - it started off many years ago when I read a really slushy novel about Anne Boleyn and that got me really hooked.
And I love the program The Tudors - though you need to take it with a pinch of salt - definelty not a history lesson.
I really enjoyed the Margaret George autobiography of Henry VIII but if you are looling for something factual then I really like Alison Weir and find her quite easy to read, I really enjoyed her the six wives of Henry VIII and have read it more than once.

I work for a history publishing company and we have a few good books on the Tudors on our list, including The House of Tudor and Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England. Have a look at www.thehistorypress.co.uk

I work for a history publishing company and we have a few good books on the Tudors on our list, including The House of Tudor and Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England. Have a look at www.thehistorypress.co.uk

Agree completely Snooks14 - loved the Tudors series but definitely wouldn't be a good idea to watch it if you wanted historical facts about the era (maybe if you wanted some advice on how to spice up your bedroom antics, then yes worth a look lol).

Alison Weir and also the House of Tudor are both good books. Not sure of any others. :o

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel. It is a great read and meant to be very true to fact. I think it won the booker prize?

The CJ Sansom series about the lawyer Matthew Shardlake is set in Tudor times and I know he does his research very thoroughly. He also wrote Winter in Madrid (which is fantastic too).

The series in order:
Dissolution
Dark Fire
Soverign
Revelation
Heartstone

I've just finished Heartstone and it was bloody brilliant! I recommend them to everyone and historical fiction isn't really my 'thing'.

First in the series

Yep. Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel. You could try Tracy Chevallier and I know that Alison Weir is well researched. Hasn't Peter Ackroyd written something on the Tudors???

My 9 year old DD is in the grip of a Tudor addiction. Interesting exposure to adult themes but I love the way she is relating it to everything including going to an Anglican school. We have endless discussion about if Henry and Catherine of Aragon's baby son had lived, would an Anglican school exist or would we all be Catholics?
She has been inspired by a great series called "My Royal Story" writing about the wives and Mary ane Elizabeth from different perspectives. bSo if you want to look at some children's literature take on it, I would reccomend these.