Disappointing, overrated, just not good: What book did you feel as if you were supposed to like, and didn’t? The result is a series of vivid cameos as brilliantly conceived as they are scholarly." What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like to read in our Group Read for January 2016? She has blown the dust from archives that have mouldered for years in dusty palaces and museums. My parents chose a wonderful range of titles for me, and I was brought up to know that a new book was a special treat. What was the last truly great book you read? Do you read more fiction or nonfiction, and what’s your favorite genre? "No one knows more about this [Tudor] era than historian and bestselling author Alison Weir."
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), "When historians go into print, they must strive to achieve a readable style without sacrificing historical accuracy. Alison Weir is a British writer of history books, and latterly historical novels, mostly in the form of biographies about British royalty.. Her art is such that the reader is swept along by the story, scarcely noticing how very complicated that story is."
“Romeo and Juliet.” I gave out the texts to my class of adolescents and announced we would be reading Shakespeare, only to be greeted by groans of “Boring” and “Nooo!” But, by the end of that lesson, they were gripped and begging to stage the play.
(The Boston Globe), "The scope and depth of Weir`s research provide a wealth of detail missing from many other narrative histories about the Tudors." She is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit organization If Americans Knew (IAK) and president of the Council for the National Interest (CNI).
(The History Review from Waterstone's Booksellers), "Alison is an impeccable researcher, a brilliant writer and a gifted storyteller." Read 1 609 reviews from the world's largest com… She manages her complex material well, but it is her set-piece stories that impress; many have never been told so well." (The Literary Review) "Alison Weir has the rare gift of being able to bring history vividly to life." (South Wales Evening Post), "Alison Weir is a gifted writer, [Her] research is always first-rate and her narratives accessible."
(Surrey County Council Magazine), "She is an expert on the [Tudor] period."
(The Literary Review), "Alison Weir is one of our best popular historians and one, moreover, with an impressive scholarly pedigree in Tudor history." I loved strong narratives — and still do. (Birmingham Post), "Alison Weir has a reputation for producing well-researched, well-written histories." Did you have a favorite character or hero? I love domestic noirs and psychological thrillers. We've gone from her being a respected historian to the point where she's a phenomenon. (BBC Homes and Antiques), "Alison Weir's great strength is her ability to make dense, fact-packed history seem like a pleasurable, engaging novel." (queenanneboleyn.com) Nor is Alison Weir to be confused with her sister-in-law of the same name. I’d give Meghan Markle “Burke’s Guide to the Royal Family,” because I think it would give her a sound cultural context for the rarefied world into which she is marrying. (Frank McLynn, The Independent on Sunday), "Weir provides immense satisfaction. One of the best history books I have ever read is Helen Rappaport’s “A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the Monarchy.”.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII book.
(The Boston Globe), "Weir is so much the master of the period, so intuitive and unsentimental an interpreter of royal minds, and so upfront about her assumptions." (Teaching History), "Alison Weir is the best kind of popular historian.
They are well written and thoughtfully plotted, and A Dangerous Inheritance is sharp and pungent at times in its consideration of early modern politics and identity. What kind of reader were you as a child? No less than five of her books featured in the Waterstone's Top 20 bestselling history titles last year. The historical novelist Alison Weir, author most recently of “Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen,” has some reading advice for Meghan Markle. (Publishers Weekly) "She weaves fact and fiction really well, and it is more believable for it." Elle est connue pour ses opinions critiques sur Israël. I always keep two books on the go at once. Alison Weir is an American activist and writer known for her interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Yorkshire Evening Press) "Alison Weir has a brilliant handle of character-driven history titles." There is a breadth of vision to [her] research and writing that provides a sense of time and place as well as consequence." What books might we be surprised to find on your bookshelves? If you had to name one book that made you who you are today, what would it be? She writes with an obvious wealth of research and scholarship under her belt." Her last Pimlico paperback, Eleanor of Aquitaine, sold 100,000 copies. At other times, I read fiction, but rarely of the historical variety. At breakfast, I read nonfiction — recent titles have been “Shakespeare’s Wife,” by Germaine Greer; “The Last Great Edwardian Lady,” by Ingrid Seward; and “Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front, 1914-1918,” by David Johnson. (Your Family Tree magazine), "A fine writer with a wonderful gift for description." The research underpinning it is impressive.
What’s the most interesting thing you’ve learned from a book recently? A huge collection of ghost stories and books on the supernatural — it fascinates me! Probably Ken Follett’s “A Column of Fire.” I know I’ll be in for a treat. Although it necessarily dwells on the likes of William the Conqueror, Henry I of England and a few others, it is only because the lives of their queens cannot be told without them.
As a writer, you’ve moved from writing history to writing fiction. Her first work, Britain's Royal Families published 1989, was a genealogical overview of the British royal family. If you could require the prime minister to read one book, what would it be? (Teaching History), "Weir's great strengths lie in knowing which sources to choose, and her proper scepticism in sorting propaganda from accounts with the ring of truth." There are many reasons for this. Her Favorite Books About Mistresses: Devour these five juicy books about the power and allure of the "other woman" from the historian who wrote... “I prefer to be left alone with my books.”, “If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by”, “You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none”. (Suite 101), "Alison Weir, who combines exacting scholarship with the ability to make complex, indeed, labyrinthine political affairs comprehensible, engrossing and bloodcurdling, is one of the best historians of the British monarchy at work today." My favorite character was Cinderella; I was obsessed with the story, and still love it. (Tucson Citizen), "David Starkey and Alison Weir [are] the two best Tudor historians we have working today."
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(The Nashville Tennessean), "As Weir so ably shows, there is more to writing history than comforting readers by rehearsing the familiar stories." . (Chicago Tribune) Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and Clive James. I have six shelves of unread books to choose from!
This is a subject I’ve long wanted to tackle, and Fremantle gives it her elegant and engaging best. (Waterstones Books Quarterly), "Mrs Weir is a fine story teller, basing her texts on very deep research. (The Bookseller), "If only Alison Weir`s works had been around when I was sitting my history A-levels."
"Alison Weir has perfected the art of bringing history to life. In terms of reputation Weir is not helped by the problematic marketing of her books; they look very much like [Philippa] Gregory's. What three writers, dead or alive, would you invite to dinner? Alison Weir is a British historian and author, and not the American journalist and activist Alison Weir.
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