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WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE BRITISH AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN

ALISON WEIR.

ALISON WEIR IS THE BIGGEST-SELLING FEMALE HISTORIAN (AND THE FIFTH

BEST-SELLING HISTORIAN) IN THE UNITED KINGDOM SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN

1997. SHE HAS PUBLISHED TWENTY-THREE TITLES AND SOLD MORE THAN 3

MILLION BOOKS - OVER A MILLION IN THE UK AND 2.2 MILLION IN THE USA.

SHE IS NOW WORKING ON TWO CONCURRENT SERIES OF BOOKS: SIX TUDOR

QUEENS, COMPRISING SIX NOVELS ON THE WIVES OF HENRY VIII (WITH

ASSOCIATED E-BOOKS, ABOVE), AND ENGLAND'S MEDIEVAL QUEENS, A QUARTET

OF HISTORICAL WORKS OF NON-FICTION.

On 3rd December, Vintage will be republishing five books from the UK

backlist:

ABOVE - RECENT, NEW AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS

Top row, left to right:

ANNA OF KLEVE: QUEEN OF SECRETS

The fourth book in the Six Tudor Queens series

UK paperback, 23rd January 2020

THE PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND

UK e-short, 2nd April 2020

ANNE OF KLEVE: THE PRINCESS IN THE PORTRAIT

The fourth book in the Six Tudor Queens series

US paperback, 5th May 2019

KATHERYN HOWARD: THE SCANDALOUS QUEEN

The fifth book in the Six Tudor Queens series

US hardback, 12th May 2020

KATHERYN HOWARD: THE SCANDALOUS QUEEN

The fifth book in the Six Tudor Queens series

Australian and New Zealand hardback, 14th May 2020

BOTTOM ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT:

KATHERYN HOWARD: THE TAINTED QUEEN

The fifth book in the Six Tudor Queens series

UK hardback, 6th August 2020

QUEENS OF THE CRUSADES

The second book in the England's Medieval Queens series

UK hardback, 5th November 2020

QUEENS 0F THE CRUSADES

The second book in the England's Medieval Queens series

US hardback, 23rd February 2021

KATHARINE PARR: THE SIXTH WIFE

The sixth book in the Six Tudor Queens series

US hardback, 11th May 2021

KATHERYN HOWARD: THE SCANDALOUS QUEEN

The fifth book in the Six Tudor Queens series

US paperback, May 2021

THE SIX TUDOR QUEENS SERIES

OVER 300,000 COPIES SOLD IN THE UK!

YOU CAN READ MY BLOG POSTS ON THE SERIES AT

HTTPS://HFORHISTORY.CO.UK/H-FOR-HISTORY-POSTS/

"Thanks to its sheer comprehensiveness and ambition,this six-book

series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction." (The

Times)

SIX TUDOR QUEENS UK E-SHORTS:

SIX TUDOR QUEENS: TELLING A NEW STORY (10th March 2016)

ARTHUR, PRINCE OF THE ROSES (10th November 2016)

THE BLACKENED HEART (9th March 2017)

THE TOWER IS FULL OF GHOSTS TODAY (31st October 2017)

THE CHATEAU OF BRIIS (11th January 2018)

THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE (8th March 2018)

THE UNHAPPIEST LADY IN CHRISTENDOM (6th September 2018)

THE CURSE OF THE HUNGERFORDS (4th April 2019)

THE KING'S PAINTER (19th September 2019)

THE PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND (2nd April 2020)

To purchase UK e-books from overseas:

1: Log into your Amazon account.

2: Go to 'content and devices' on the drop menu.

3: Click 'settings' (over to the right, in blue letters)

4: Scroll down to 'country settings', and click ‘change your

country’. (This will only be temporary)

5: Enter a UK address (google UK address samples and choose a generic

address)

6: You will now have access to UK titles. Buy the book you want and

download it to your device.

7: Go through the same process to change the country settings back.

THE ENGLAND'S MEDIEVAL QUEENS QUARTET

_Historical biography, especially of people who lived centuries ago,

is more often than not the piecing together of fragments of

information and trying to make sense of them. We cannot know our

subjects as we know those of our own time: we can only infer so much

about them from the sources of the period and memorials they left

behind. My favourite novelist, Norah Lofts, could not have put it more

succinctly when she wrote, in The Brittle Glass (1942): 'And so out of

the bits and pieces I could gather, out of my own imaginings and

speculations, I built up a picture and a story... After all, how much

nearer, even with much documentary evidence, can we come to

understanding any one of the myriad dead who have gone to their

graves, carrying their real secrets, of motive and essence and

personality, into the silence with them?"

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 <div class="cushycms" id="maincontent"><h1>Welcome to the official website of the British author and historian Alison Weir.</h1>
 
Alison Weir is the biggest-selling female historian (and the fifth best-selling historian) in the United Kingdom since records began in 1997. She has published twenty-three titles and sold more than 3 million books - over a million in the UK and 2.2 million in the USA. She is now working on two concurrent series of books: Six Tudor Queens, comprising six novels on the wives of Henry VIII (with associated e-books, above), and England's Medieval Queens, a quartet of historical works of non-fiction. 
 
 
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On 3rd December, Vintage will be republishing five books from the UK backlist: 
 
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ABOVE - RECENT, NEW AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS 
 
Top row, left to right: 
 
ANNA OF KLEVE: QUEEN OF SECRETS 
The fourth book in the Six Tudor Queens series 
UK paperback, 23rd January 2020 
 
THE PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND 
UK e-short, 2nd April 2020 
 
ANNE OF KLEVE: THE PRINCESS IN THE PORTRAIT 
The fourth book in the Six Tudor Queens series 
US paperback, 5th May 2019 
 
KATHERYN HOWARD: THE SCANDALOUS QUEEN 
The fifth book in the Six Tudor Queens series 
US hardback, 12th May 2020 
 
KATHERYN HOWARD: THE SCANDALOUS QUEEN 
The fifth book in the Six Tudor Queens series 
Australian and New Zealand hardback, 14th May 2020 
 
Bottom row, left to right: 
 
KATHERYN HOWARD: THE TAINTED QUEEN 
The fifth book in the Six Tudor Queens series 
UK hardback, 6th August 2020 
 
QUEENS OF THE CRUSADES 
The second book in the England's Medieval Queens series 
UK hardback, 5th November 2020 
 
QUEENS 0F THE CRUSADES 
The second book in the England's Medieval Queens series 
US hardback, 23rd February 2021 
 
KATHARINE PARR: THE SIXTH WIFE 
The sixth book in the Six Tudor Queens series 
US hardback, 11th May 2021 
 
KATHERYN HOWARD: THE SCANDALOUS QUEEN 
The fifth book in the Six Tudor Queens series 
US paperback, May 2021 
 
 
 
THE SIX TUDOR QUEENS SERIES

Over 300,000 copies sold in the UK! 
 
You can read my blog posts on the series at <a href="https://hforhistory.co.uk/h-for-history-posts/">https://hforhistory.co.uk/h-for-history-posts/</a> 
 
 
 
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"Thanks to its sheer comprehensiveness and ambition,this six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction." (The Times) 
 
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SIX TUDOR QUEENS UK e-shorts: 
 
SIX TUDOR QUEENS: TELLING A NEW STORY (10th March 2016) 
ARTHUR, PRINCE OF THE ROSES (10th November 2016) 
THE BLACKENED HEART (9th March 2017) 
THE TOWER IS FULL OF GHOSTS TODAY (31st October 2017) 
THE CHATEAU OF BRIIS (11th January 2018) 
THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE (8th March 2018) 
THE UNHAPPIEST LADY IN CHRISTENDOM (6th September 2018) 
THE CURSE OF THE HUNGERFORDS (4th April 2019) 
THE KING'S PAINTER (19th September 2019) 
THE PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND (2nd April 2020) 
 
To purchase UK e-books from overseas: 
1: Log into your Amazon account. 
2: Go to 'content and devices' on the drop menu. 
3: Click 'settings' (over to the right, in blue letters) 
4: Scroll down to 'country settings', and click ‘change your country’. (This will only be temporary) 
5: Enter a UK address (google UK address samples and choose a generic address) 
6: You will now have access to UK titles. Buy the book you want and download it to your device. 
7: Go through the same process to change the country settings back. 
 
 
The ENGLAND'S MEDIEVAL QUEENS quartet 
 
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Historical biography, especially of people who lived centuries ago, is more often than not the piecing together of fragments of information and trying to make sense of them. We cannot know our subjects as we know those of our own time: we can only infer so much about them from the sources of the period and memorials they left behind. My favourite novelist, Norah Lofts, could not have put it more succinctly when she wrote, in The Brittle Glass (1942): 'And so out of the bits and pieces I could gather, out of my own imaginings and speculations, I built up a picture and a story... After all, how much nearer, even with much documentary evidence, can we come to understanding any one of the myriad dead who have gone to their graves, carrying their real secrets, of motive and essence and personality, into the silence with them?" &nbsp; 
 
 
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