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'A biography that reads as thrillingly as a detective story, and is rich in details and authoritative in its analysis' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times 'An absorbing biography ... meticulously researched... scholarly and intriguing' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'Fascinating... A book based on gold-standard research, the kind of thing that puts most popular history writing to shame' Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday 'Rarely have first-class scholarship and first-class storytelling been so effectively combined' John Adamson, Daily Telegraph

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John Guy is an award-winning historian, whose books include A Daughter’s Love: Thomas and Margaret More, Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years, Thomas Becket, Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame and The Children of Henry VIII. He is also an accomplished broadcaster, who has presented and contributed to numerous documentaries for BBC2 and Channel 4, as well as appearing on BBC Radio's cultural programmes. He writes for a number of publications, including the Sunday Times and the Literary Review, and is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

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