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I read this a couple years ago, and found it to be both tawdry and fun. The Tudors are clearly pretty crazy. If you're looking for more good historical fiction, I really liked Abundance, which is a novel about Marie Antoinette.
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I loved the movie so I will have to check the book out too. I love this anything in this time period!
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Try 'Restoration' by Rose Tremain, one of my favourite authors. A different time period in British history but it captivates, too. (She also wrote music and silence which is also a really good read)
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I read this book and this is the book that got me hooked on historical fiction! I loved it! Another good book is the one after this, The Bolyn Inheritance, it keeps the story going through the rest of Henry's wives. I didn't like it nearly as much as The Other Bolyn Girl but it was still extremly good.
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Jean Plaidy also wrote quite a few novels set in this period - Katherine of Aragon (Anne Boleyn's direct rival as Henry VIII's first wife) and the other five wives. They're wonderful (if sad) reading.
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This is definitely one of my all-time favorite pieces of historical fiction. I discovered historical fiction by Jean Plaidy, but my personal favorite author in this genre is Margaret George. (During some research, I discovered Jean Plaidy is a pen name for Victoria Holt whom writes gothic romance.) George wrote a book about Henry VIII, but I haven't read that one. I loved her novels Cleopatra and Mary, Queen of Scots. They are excellent and I totally recommend them
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I still haven't read The Other Bolyn Girl, though people keep encouraging me to since I teach Tudor literature. Maybe it should go on the summer reading list. One of the historical fiction writers I enjoy is Tracy Chevalier. She's best known for her Girl With a Pearl Earring, but she's written some other interesting ones as well. The most recent one I read, called The Lady and the Unicorn was based on the production of the famous Medieval Unicorn Tapestries, now in the Cluny in France and I had the unique opportunity to read it just before seeing the tapestries themselves (which are gorgeous!). She always does solid historical research as well as spinning an entertaining story.
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I don't know how solid the research is, but I really enjoyed The Other Boleyn girl. It's full of sex, intrigue, betrayal... I guess the usual stuff for a book about historical royals. I've read several other books by Philippa Gregory as well, and I liked them all. They're good summer guilty pleasure books.
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