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Thomas More
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  • Published: 2 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405953627
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $28.99
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Thomas More

A Life and Death in Tudor England

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2 June 2026
EBook
22 May 2025
Audiobook
22 May 2025
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Worshipped as a saint, detested as a torturer, admired as revolutionary, condemned as dogmatic: the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the 16th century

Thomas More is one of the most famous – or infamous – figures in English history. Is he a saintly scholar and an inspiration for statesmen, socialists and intellectuals even today? Or is he the stubborn zealot famously portrayed in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall?

Here is the definitive biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure. Overturning many interpretations of the sixteenth century, Joanne Paul shows More to have been an intellectual and political giant of his age, central to the making of modern Europe. Drawing on new archival discoveries and over a decade's research into More's life and work, this is a richly-told story of family, faith and politics.
  • Published: 2 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405953627
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $28.99
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About the author

Joanne Paul

Joanne Paul is a writer, broadcaster, consultant, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. A BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. She has written for the Cambridge University Press 'Ideas in Context' series, and has been widely praised for her work on Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. Her current academic project is an edition of Thomas More’s Utopia for the Oxford University Press. Her first book for the trade, The House of Dudley was published in 2022. Thomas More: A Life was published in May 2025.
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