I was frustrated because so much of what we have is fragments written by monks, which gives a very skewed perspective. What made you want to expand your writing?ĪW: It began when I was writing my non-fiction book, Eleanor of Aquitaine. TT: You began as a non-fiction writer, only beginning to write fiction after some 10 non-fiction books. I am sure we are all waiting with bated breath! The first, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen will be released on 5th May 2016. In addition, Alison has published extremely popular novels about the period, including Innocent Traitor and A Dangerous Inheritance about Lady Jane and Lady Katherine Grey respectively as well as The Marriage Game, about Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley.Īlison’s latest project is a series of novels on each of the wives of Henry VIII. Her nine non-fiction books on the Tudor and Stuart period include: Henry VIII: King and Court The Six Wives of Henry VIII Elizabeth the Queen The Lady in the Tower (Anne Boleyn ) Lost Tudor Princess (a life of Lady Margaret Douglas) and Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley. She concentrates largely on the Tudor period, but has also written about the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in her biographies of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France and Katherine Swynford. Alison Weir is one of the best-selling authors of history in the world, publishing both non-fiction and fiction.
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