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The Man on a Donkey
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Description
'The most immersive book I've ever read... Truly brings Tudor England to life' Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Times
'One of the finest historical novels ever written' TLS
A forgotten literary masterpiece, The Man on a Donkey is less about the great figures who shape historical change and more about what it's like to live through it.
This is a sweeping, immersive historical novel that invites the reader to inhabit Tudor history as it unfolds: Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon; Robert Aske's rebels fighting the Dissolution of the Monasteries; the machinations of Cardinal Wolsey and Anne Boleyn.
It is, quite simply, one of the finest historical novels ever written.
'A masterpiece' Eamon Duffy
'A classic of historical fiction... Captures all the poignant strangeness of the era' Hilary Mantel
Product details
Published | 01 Dec 2016 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 756 |
ISBN | 9781784977702 |
Imprint | Head of Zeus |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A novel that truly brings Tudor England to life... Reading her prose is less like looking at words on a page and more like looking through a window... [Unlike] any other historical novel I've read
Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Times
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By widespread assent, one of the finest historical novels ever written
TLS
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The great beauty of the writing... The words caress the imagination
Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail
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A classic of historical fiction... Blends real and invented characters and captures all the poignant strangeness of the era
Hilary Mantel
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A masterpiece
Eamon Duffy