Book description
Winner of THE HW FISHER BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE
SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012
SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN,
DAILY MAIL and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2011
'He were a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, and his times
full of secret conspiracies and troubles' Sir Francis Bacon
In his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and
turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young,
vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would
become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And
at the book's heart is the tragic, magnetic figure of Henry VII -
controlling, paranoid, avaricious, with a Machiavellian charm and will
to power.
Thomas Penn was born in 1974. He has a PhD in early Tudor history
from Clare College, Cambridge.
Winter King
is his first book.
