Alison weir author biography
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Alison Weir Tours
Alison Weir had a career in the Civil Service before her first book, Britain`s Royal Families, came out in She has since written fifteen other history books, including The Six Wives of Henry VIII, The Princes in the Tower, Lancaster and York, Children of England, Elizabeth the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry VIII: King and Court, Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley, Katherine Swynford and The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn. Alison has also written four historical novels, the latest of which, A Dangerous Inheritance, was published in Her books sell all over the world. Four of them have been chosen as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. Her last history book, Mary Boleyn, was published in , and her next, a biography of Elizabeth of York, will be published in November In , she published a short book, Traitors of the Tower, for the Quick Reads series for emergent adult readers. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
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Author Biography
For visitors who would like to know something about me, I am a Londoner, born and bred at Westminster, although I have also lived in Norfolk, Sussex and Scotland, and now reside in Surrey. I married Rankin Weir (d) in , and we have had two children, John () and Kate (born ). I was educated at the City of London School for Girls, obtaining A-levels in English Literature, Art and History (English and European medieval history, with twelfth-century monasticism in the West as my specialist subject), then at the North Western Polytechnic of London, where I trained as a teacher with History as my main subject, studying world history, English medieval history and the Italian Renaissance. I did not pursue that career, however, because I quickly became disillusioned with trendy teaching methods.
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Welcome to the official website of the British author and historian Alison Weir.
Dr Alison Weir is the biggest-selling kvinna historian (and the fifth best-selling historian) in the United Kingdom since records began in She has published thirty-two titles and sold more than 3 million books - over a million in the UK and million in the USA. She fryst vatten now working on two concurrent series of books: the historisk period Rose trilogy of novels about Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII and Mary I, and England's Medieval Queens, a quartet of historical works of non-fiction.
ABOVE - RECENT, NEW AND FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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QUEENS OF THE AGE OF CHIVALRY
UK paperback, 2nd November
QUEENS OF THE AGE OF CHIVALRY
US paperback, 5th månad
HENRY VIII: THE HEART AND THE CROWN
UK paperback, 18th January
THE KING'S PLEASURE: A NOVEL OF HENRY VIII
US paperback, 7th May
MARY I: QUEEN OF SORROWS
UK hardback, 9th May
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