Nominations Open - Group Read for November 2016

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like to have as our Group Read in November?

If it's in a series, can it be easily read as a stand-alone? If not, you might want to nominate the first book in the series, or the most recent book in it the group has not read together.

Can't remember what we've already read as a group? (Sometimes I can't, either.) There's a "group-reads" shelf on the group Bookshelf.

Two nominations to a person, please.

[Rachel]

Prince Arthur: The King who never was by Sean Cunningham

The sultan and the Queen by Jerry Brotton

[Stephanie]

The Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle

[Aled]

Hi group, I would like to nominate The Colours of Our Petals and The Armada.

[Skye]

Stormbird and Margaret of Anjou

[Christine]

Fashion in the Time of William Shakespeare: 1564–1616
and
John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey's Father-in-Law

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

We read Queen's Gambit last December, Stephanie.

Skye, Stormbird and Margaret of Anjou both look very early for this group. (They look right up the Plantagenet group's alley, though!)

[Skye]

All right, Susanna; I suspected that might be the case.

[Oneworld]

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood

[Skye]

How aboutThe Pleasure Palace

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

Anyone have any last minute nominations? I'll be starting a poll later today.

[Jasmine]

I'd like to nominate The Tudor Bride by Joanna Hickson and Royal Inheritance by Kate Emerson.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

I will nominate How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life by Ruth Goodman, and The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, by Ian Mortimer.

And now I will go start a poll.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

The poll is now open, either on the bottom of the group's home page, or through this link: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1... .

[Jackie]

Love the top two choices this time! However, did I see it correctly that Game of Queens doesn't arrive at Amazon until November 29?

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

Jackie wrote: "Love the top two choices this time! However, did I see it correctly that Game of Queens doesn't arrive at Amazon until November 29?"

Yes, from checking US and UK Amazons, it's out in the UK, and will be published in the US in November. This could be ... problematic for quite a lot of us.

[Jackie]

My sentiments exactly! :)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

Well, I could slot it in for December, and give November to whatever finishes second, I guess. Or give it both November and December? (In both cases if it's the winner, obviously.)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

I have decided to give Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe, which was indeed the winner, both November and December.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

We will be discussing Game of Queens here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... .