Philippa Gregory, who's known for her historical fiction (?!) and author of The Other Boleyn Girl (the movie adaptation starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana). While it's not typical chick lit, but I can't imagine a guy reading her work either, so there. Yes, I consider her my guilty reading pleasure - she is my chick lit. Based on historical fact - HAH.
I started with The Other Boleyn Girl and then moved through the rest of Tudor series (The Constant Princess, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover) not always in order, but I'm fine with it. She's got other books, but anyone vaguely interested in Tudor history should read the aforementioned series. The books are written and published out of chronological order, the reading order is The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover and The Other Queen.
I find the books so engrossing that I just want to keep reading. Most of the chapters are pretty short (ala Dan Brown) and is in the voice of a particular protagonist of the book, which I don't mind. While the books are based on historical "fact" (a bibliography is included in every book), the rest is pretty much dramatised to make it more interesting: she makes Elizabeth I sounds like she's always gagging for it than as a virgin queen :P There are implied "love scenes" but nothing terribly explicit.
I got done reading The Other Queen, which is about Mary, Queen of Scots and also combines the voices of Bess of Hardwick and George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury during Mary's years of incarceration in England.
No, I don't really keep the books once I'm done - I might hold on to it for a while, but I don't keep them.
I started with The Other Boleyn Girl and then moved through the rest of Tudor series (The Constant Princess, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover) not always in order, but I'm fine with it. She's got other books, but anyone vaguely interested in Tudor history should read the aforementioned series. The books are written and published out of chronological order, the reading order is The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover and The Other Queen.
I find the books so engrossing that I just want to keep reading. Most of the chapters are pretty short (ala Dan Brown) and is in the voice of a particular protagonist of the book, which I don't mind. While the books are based on historical "fact" (a bibliography is included in every book), the rest is pretty much dramatised to make it more interesting: she makes Elizabeth I sounds like she's always gagging for it than as a virgin queen :P There are implied "love scenes" but nothing terribly explicit.
I got done reading The Other Queen, which is about Mary, Queen of Scots and also combines the voices of Bess of Hardwick and George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury during Mary's years of incarceration in England.
No, I don't really keep the books once I'm done - I might hold on to it for a while, but I don't keep them.
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