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Jobo

Phillipa Gregory - The Boleyn Inheritance?

Sorry - seem to be asking a lot of questions today Laughing I have had the day off and have been indulging my two obsessions - knitting and reading Very Happy

Anyway I had an email from Amazon advertising this book - the reviews look great and having read a couple of PG's books - wondered what you thought - is it a page turner?

Thanks Very Happy
pictish

Have got this but not read it yet Jo but all the other Tudor ones are really good so think this one will be too Cool
Jobo

Thanks Ali - I think it will be good, but I might wait for it to come out in paperback Very Happy

I really shouldnt spend any more at the moment - I have just looked at that Kim Hargreaves website - which I haven't seen before Rolling Eyes
pictish

Oooh the Kimmy site is very bad for you Laughing

The Boleyn Inheritance should be out in paerback very soon as I bought it last summer.
CJ

ooo, they have that book on audible. have added it to my wish list for next month Very Happy
Anna

I read it and I quite enjoyed it, but I would agree that waiting for it to come out in paperback is a good idea. I'm one of those people who either love or hate PG's books, and I'm the only person I know who enjoyed "The Wise Woman" and didn't find it utterly repulsive Confused
pictish

The Wideacre ones sound horrible by all accounts - incest is not attractive in a main character on the whole Confused
Jobo

Well I couldn't resist in the end and went and bought the hardback, and it is so good. I feel sorry for Anne of Cleves at the moment but am only quarter way through the book - that could change:D

It made me want to spend even more money on that Henry VIII drama with Ray Winstone which I got on DVD yesterday on Amazon marketplace. Just waiting for a peaceful afternoon when I can sit and watch all 3 hours of it Very Happy
terri

DH got me the Elizabeth series which was dramatised last year, brilliant, I bet you'd enjoy that Jobo!!!!!!!
Jobo

terri wrote:
DH got me the Elizabeth series which was dramatised last year, brilliant, I bet you'd enjoy that Jobo!!!!!!!


Oh yes - I saw that on TV - really good - especially as she got older, more crotchety and whiter in the face Laughing

I didn't enjoy history at school at all, probably because I didn't like the teacher - but I love it now Smile
terri

It was really good!
I love history too, I did GCSE history but it was modern history which I didn't enjoy so much, but I love Medieval history Very Happy And any British history prior to that time., especially arthurian legend Very Happy
Have you read the mists of avalon Jobo??
CJ

I have this to listen to on my ipod, just finished hannibal rising, and now onto a dalziel and pascoe one first Very Happy
gilraen

Tudour England was my favourite bit of history. Has anyone read Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond or Nicolo series. The Lymond series is my all time favourite books ever. So beautifully written between the death of Henry VIII and the crowning of Elizabeth I but set over Europe, Russia, Africa, Malta and Constantinople. I've read them ever few years since I was 16 years old and I get something new from them everytime I read them.

They are my desert island books.
Jobo

terri wrote:
Have you read the mists of avalon Jobo??


No I havent Terri - can't say I have heard of it, but I will go and investigate on Amazon Laughing
terri

Its the king arthur legend, but its really really good!!!! I loved it and have reread it aswell Very Happy
pictish

gilraen wrote:
Tudour England was my favourite bit of history. Has anyone read Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond or Nicolo series. The Lymond series is my all time favourite books ever. So beautifully written between the death of Henry VIII and the crowning of Elizabeth I but set over Europe, Russia, Africa, Malta and Constantinople. I've read them ever few years since I was 16 years old and I get something new from them everytime I read them.

They are my desert island books.


I read the first Niccolo but got bogged down in the 2nd Confused and hated the 1st Lymond Shocked And I had bought both sets Laughing BUT Mr pictish got totally obsessed with them and has just finished reading the whole lot and INSISTS I try again. I find her style a bit irritating but she knows her stuff Very Happy

I am just discovering Nigel Tranter - brilliant books on Scottish history - and he's written about a million - YAYYYY Laughing

And the reason history is so boring at school - I used to teach A-level Wink - is they don't teach you the things most people want to know such as what ordinary people thought, felt, wore and ate. That's why archaeology is much more interesting to study cos you DO do that - or at least try to Very Happy .
Jobo

pictish wrote:
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And the reason history is so boring at school - I used to teach A-level Wink - is they don't teach you the things most people want to know such as what ordinary people thought, felt, wore and ate. That's why archaeology is much more interesting to study cos you DO do that - or at least try to Very Happy .


You have absolutely, definitely hit the nail on the head there Ali - that is exactly what I think. I was OK when we did the Battle of Hastings, but lost the plot after that and never regained any interest at school:?

Geography was even worse - I wanted to know about places and people, not sheep farming in Australia or coffee production in Brazil, important though it may be Laughing
gilraen

Eeek Tudor, not tudour! Embarassed

I agree about geography. I would love to have done history further at school but my English teacher persuaded me that I couldn't write and I wouldn't do any subject that involved a great deal of prose. (instead I chose Geography and Accounting for A Level)

I was surprised to find that later when I ended up at Uni that I could write well enough to get my degree. Rolling Eyes

I read the Nicolo series Pictish but never enjoyed it at all that much. Lymond was the real Renaissance man and I had a major crush on him for years. I even remember a Mastermind specialist round on the Lymond series. Smile Embarassed
Anna

I love the Mists of Avalon too, I have read it at least once a year since I was about 15! If you like that book I recommend The Firebrand by the same author (Marion Zimmer Bradley). It's about the Trojan War from Cassandra's point of view.

As for history, I'm a total mythology geek, so anything set around Ancient Greece (which usually involves some mythology), the Celts or the Cathars/Knights Templar gets a second look from me. Sadly since the Da Vinci Code took off there's been some terrible dross published about the Cathars/Knights Templar/related subjects which I won't give house room too Rolling Eyes
Jobo

I hated the Da Vinci Code - despite desperately trying twice to read it - the film was OK though Confused
pictish

I couldn't get into it either Jo Confused

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