Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I Audiobook

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• “Ackroyd writes with such lightly worn erudition and a deceptive ease that he never fails to engage.”

  — Telegraph (London)

• “Superbly accessible and readable.”

  — Financial Times (London)

• “As so often in Ackroyd’s books there are irresistible small details of everyday life in historic London.”

  — Daily Express (London)

• “Ackroyd clearly relishes the wicked glamor of the family which presided over the Reformation, saw off the Spanish Armada, founded the British Empire, and left the country they ruled a great European power…Fluent and colorful.”

  — Sunday Express (London)

• “Peter Ackroyd is energetic and gifted enough to have mastered his sources and produced a sparklingly fresh account of Tudor England…Ackroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind…If you want a finely written, racy account of the monster Henry VIII and his brood, a history book that really fires your imagination and is often so exciting that you cannot put it down, you should get this book.”

  — Weekly Standard

• “Ackroyd’s love of his subject shines through every page. This is a thrilling story that will delight readers interested in this period.”

  — San Francisco Book Review

• “Ackroyd’s thoroughly researched narrative of the notorious Tudors is colorful, engaging, and highly accessible to general readers.”

  — Choice (Australia)

• “Ackroyd’s books are a celebration of Englishness. One senses that he has an immense pride in the way aspects of modern life have evolved...This is a fascinating read, an accessible history where the immense research is wittily presented and where the ideas are profound and moving.”

  — Newtown Review of Books (Sydney)

• “The Tudor era was pivotal in English history and remains of perennial interest to the general reader. Ackroyd takes on this much-written-about family history in his new, highly engaging book…[with] rich prose and careful explanations.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “This is an accessible account, made even more so by anecdotes revealing the personalities of the main characters.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Of particular interest to those seeking an in-depth look at the religious changes of the Tudor period and the complex and often violent ways in which religious upheaval intertwined with politics.”

  — Library Journal

• “As usual, Ackroyd is a find guide. A solid multivolume popular history: readable, entirely nonrevisionist, and preoccupied by politics, religion, and monarchs—a worthy rival to Winston Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples.”

  — Kirkus Reviews