The House of Dudley
A New History of Tudor England. A TIMES Book of the Year 2022
$41.95
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
8 August 2023
Summary
In the shadow of every Tudor monarch there was a family who were the kingmakers but were never the kings, told for the very first time, this is the true story of the family behind the throne, the Dudley family.
Was the House of Dudley out to steal the throne? This was the question on the mind of Elizabeth I’s courtiers when a forbidden book accused generations of the Dudley family of poisonings, plottings, murders, treason, incitement and other ‘evil stratagems.’
For decades, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405937191 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 140593719X |
| Author: | Dr Joanne Paul |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 8 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 38mm |
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A tour-de-force of Tudor history, as seen through the eyes of a family with a front-row view of almost every major political event in sixteenth-century England. Remarkable – Dan Jones, Sunday Times bestselling author of Powers and ThronesExciting and immersive. An immensely entertaining history, capturing in full Tudor brilliance the cut-throat glamour of the English throne and the most audacious family to play its game * Sunday Times *House of Dudley is a full-blooded affair, as good on the horrors of war as it is on the soft power of the Dudley women, and written in a lively, episodic style that presents each Dudley as a foil to the monarch they served – Jessie ChildsBreathes new life into an old and familiar Tudor story. [She] negotiates the labyrinth of Tudor politics with skill, producing a book much more comprehensible and illuminating than others I’ve read … It’s delightful, a joy to read * The Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK *
I am hugely impressed by The House of Dudley and by the depths of research. This is a pacy narrative, vividly written, that makes you want to read on and on.Joanne Paul is a major new talent in the field and I eagerly await her next book
– Alison WeirThis is riveting stuff: death, desire, power and scandal. Paul has made the most of it, producing a well written and historically grounded page-turner … Game of Thrones looks tame compared with the real-life machinations of the Dudleys and the Tudors * Spectator *A twist on the Tudors … Enormously entertaining - a sheer joy to read * The Times, ‘25 BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2022’ *A hugely entertaining history of three generations of the Dudley family, who dominated the Tudor court * The Times *A thrilling and deeply researched study of power and conspiracy: the rise and fall of the other Tudor dynasty. The House of Dudley illuminates the fascinating men and women who almost became kings and queens in their own right – Simon Sebag-MontefioreVivid, innovative and authoritative. I could not recommend The House of Dudley more highly. It’s a real lesson in how to revitalise the writing of Tudor history – Sarah GristwoodAbout The Author
Dr Joanne Paul
Joanne Paul is a writer, broadcaster, consultant, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. A BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. She has written for the Cambridge University Press ‘Ideas in Context’ series, and has been widely praised for her work on Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. Her current academic project is an edition of Thomas More’s Utopia for the Oxford University Press. Her first book for the trade, The House of Dudley was published in 2022. Thomas More- A Life was published in May 2025.
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