Published: 15 July 2018
ISBN: 9780141987323
Imprint: Allen Lane
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
RRP: $9.99

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Biography

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Henry Viii (Penguin Monarchs)

John Guy

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The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback.

'He believed he had a special relationship with God, hence the ease with which he became mesmerized by his own legend'

Charismatic and cruel, a devout traditionalist who oversaw a cataclysmic rupture with the church; a towering figure who could not bear to meet people's eyes when he talked to them, Henry VIII remains a figure of extreme contradictions. From his glorious youth to his last, agonising, 54-inch-waisted years, John Guy looks behind the mask into Henry's mind.

Published: 15 July 2018
ISBN: 9780141987323
Imprint: Allen Lane
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
RRP: $9.99

Categories:

Biography

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John Guy

John Guy is an award-winning historian, accomplished broadcaster and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. His previous books include My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots, winner of the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award, the highly acclaimed dual biography A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More and a history, Tudor England, which has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide.