Nominations Open - Group Read for August 2018

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like to have as our Group Read in August 2018?

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's Bookshelf.

Two nominations to a person, please.

[Kathryne]

Margaret Pole the Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham

[Kathryne]

Anne Seymour by Susan Higginbotham.

[Silvia]

I suggest Amy Robsart: A Life and Its End

[Michell]

Anne Boleyn by Evelyn Anthony and

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Gladys Malvern

[Natalie]

I will nominate and .

[Louise]

I want to recommend two I just bought:

Portrait of an Unknown Woman - Vanora Bennett

and

Mary Rose: Tudor Princess, Queen of France. The Extraordinary Life of Henry VIII's Sister - David Loades

[Patricia]

and

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

Patricia, we read Sister Queens in February 2015 - so you still have a nomination left.

[Christine]

I would like to nominate The Sisters of Henry VIII by Maria Perry and The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton. Thanks.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

We read The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women in February 2018, so you still have a nomination left, Christine.

[Antonietta]

I would like to nominate " Blood Will Tell" a Medical explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII by Kyra Cornelius Kramer and " Catherine of Aragon" by Giles Tremlet. Antonietta

[Kimberly]

It's not historical fiction but I would like to nominate Guy, John. Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years. The book was named a Costa Biography Award Finalist.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

We read John Guy's Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years in April 2017. (Excellent book.)

[Susan]

I will nominate 'Will' by Christopher Rush. It offers a wonderful evocation of late Tudor England as William Shakespeare lies dying, dictating his will to his lawyer . It is a wonderful monologue taking the reader from his humble beginnings in Stratford to the heights of his success in London.

[April]

I would like to nominate The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton

[Christine]

April, I nominated that book as well but apparently it was read by the group this past February. Guess we will have to read it on our own :)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

The threads are still open, for anyone who wants to read a previous month's choice. (Look further down here in the "Group Reads" section.)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

If anyone has a nomination they would like to make, now would be a good time to make it, as I'll probably be opening the poll later today.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

Alright, I will nominate The Last Armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O'Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion by Des Ekin, and The White Rose Murders by Paul Doherty.

And with that I will close nominations and open the poll.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

The poll is now open. You'll find on the front page of the group, at the top of the Polls section, or here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1... .

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Mod #4]

If voting closed now (which it does not), the winner, by 1 vote, would be Blood Will Tell: A Medical Explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII.