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The Blood of Emmett Till
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This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights...
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The Golden Hour
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The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the...
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Deborah (162 KP) rated The Tudor Rose in Books
Dec 21, 2018
Overall the book follows a somewhat traditionalist stance, although Henry Tudor comes across as pretty cold and unlikeable. I wasn't convinced by some of the internal logic and some of the characterisation though. Anne Neville, for example. She is a figure we really don't know that much about, but it's hard to conceive she could be as simple and naive as she is portrayed here! Barnes does try it on a bit with trying to make us wonder if 'Perkin' is really Richard of York (and here the historical novelist has licence, because we really don't know!), despite having Bess keep adamantly stating that she knows her brothers are dead. We're also told that Elizabeth Woodville believes they died, which might lead one to question why she would have a finger in a rebellion against her daughter as queen consort? And if everybody really believed this, why did Sir William Stanley lose his head for saying he wouldn't fight against 'Perkin' if he was really a son of Edward IV - and that is in the historical record as well as this novel. There's an awful lot about Bess believing both Richard and Henry have potentially been culpable in acts of murder, but she herself in this novel is guilty of an act of treachery that is at least as bad!
Not a badly written novel, but I found it frustrating overall!
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The Night Ocean
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From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and...
mystery thriller
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Noir: A Novel
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The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling...
humor fantasy fiction
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The Bulb Hunter
Chris Wiesinger and William C. Welch
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Dubbed the Bulb Hunter in a 2006 New York Times feature story, Chris Wiesinger took his passion for...
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The Poetry Lesson
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"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in...
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The Prose Brut and Other Late Medieval Chronicles: Books Have Their Histories. Essays in Honour of Lister M. Matheson
Jaclyn Rajsic, Erik Kooper and Dominique Hoche
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The histories of chronicles composed in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and...
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Walkaway: A Novel
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From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love,...
Science fiction fiction
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Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
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An astonishing—and astonishingly entertaining—history of Hollywood’s transformation over the...
Biography business theatre