Welcome to the official website of the British author and historian Alison Weir.
Dr Alison Weir is the biggest-selling female historian (and the fifth best-selling historian) in the United Kingdom since records began in 1997. She has published thirty-two titles and sold more than 3 million books - over a million in the UK and 2.2 million in the USA. She is now working on two concurrent series of books: the Tudor 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
Top row, left to right:
HENRY VIII: THE HEART AND THE CROWN
UK hardback, 11th May 2023
HENRY VIII: THE HEART AND THE CROWN
Australia and New Zealand hardback, 11th May 2023
THE KING'S PLEASURE: A NOVEL OF HENRY VIII
US hardback, 30th May 2023
QUEENS OF THE AGE OF CHIVALRY
UK paperback, 2nd November 2023
QUEENS OF THE AGE OF CHIVALRY
US paperback, 5th December 2023
Bottom row, left to right:
HENRY VIII: THE HEART AND THE CROWN
UK paperback, 18th January 2024
THE KING'S PLEASURE: A NOVEL OF HENRY VIII
US paperback, 7th May 2024
MARY I: QUEEN OF SORROWS
UK hardback, 9th May 2024
THE PASSIONATE TUDOR: A NOVEL OF QUEEN MARY I
US hardback, 28th May 2024
MARY I: QUEEN OF SORROWS
UK paperback, 16th January 2024
THE SIX TUDOR QUEENS SERIES
Win the whole set! A competition for US readers, open until 23rd May 2021! To enter, please visit:
https://sweeps.penguinrandomhouse.com/enter/alison-weir-tudor-queens-library
Over 300,000 copies sold in the UK!
You can read my blog posts on the series at https://hforhistory.co.uk/h-for-history-posts/
KATHARINE PARR: THE SIXTH WIFE is among Amazon's Editors' Picks: Best Books of the Year, 2021
Above: UK, Australia/New Zealand, US and Czech Republic editions.
"Thanks to its sheer comprehensiveness and ambition,this six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction." (The Times)
SIX TUDOR QUEENS UK e-shorts:
SIX TUDOR QUEENS: TELLING A NEW STORY (10th March 2016)
ARTHUR, PRINCE OF THE ROSES (10th November 2016)
THE BLACKENED HEART (9th March 2017)
THE TOWER IS FULL OF GHOSTS TODAY (31st October 2017)
THE CHATEAU OF BRIIS (11th January 2018)
THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE (8th March 2018)
THE UNHAPPIEST LADY IN CHRISTENDOM (6th September 2018)
THE CURSE OF THE HUNGERFORDS (4th April 2019)
THE KING'S PAINTER (19th September 2019)
THE PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND (2nd April 2020)
THE WICKED WIFE (21st January 2020)
THE QUEEN'S CHILD (10th June 2021)
IN THIS NEW SEPULCHRE (8th July 2021)
To purchase UK e-books from overseas:
1: Log into your Amazon account.
2: Go to 'content and devices' on the drop menu.
3: Click 'settings' (over to the right, in blue letters)
4: Scroll down to 'country settings', and click ‘change your country’. (This will only be temporary)
5: Enter a UK address (google UK address samples and choose a generic address)
6: You will now have access to UK titles. Buy the book you want and download it to your device.
7: Go through the same process to change the country settings back.
The ENGLAND'S MEDIEVAL QUEENS quartet
Historical biography, especially of people who lived centuries ago, is more often than not the piecing together of fragments of information and trying to make sense of them. We cannot know our subjects as we know those of our own time: we can only infer so much about them from the sources of the period and memorials they left behind. My favourite novelist, Norah Lofts, could not have put it more succinctly when she wrote, in The Brittle Glass (1942): 'And so out of the bits and pieces I could gather, out of my own imaginings and speculations, I built up a picture and a story... After all, how much nearer, even with much documentary evidence, can we come to understanding any one of the myriad dead who have gone to their graves, carrying their real secrets, of motive and essence and personality, into the silence with them?"
