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‘The most immersive book I’ve ever read … Truly brings Tudor England to life’ Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Times
‘One of the finest historical novels ever written’ TLS
A forgotten literary masterpiece, The Man on a Donkey is less about the great figures who shape historical change and more about what it’s like to live through it.
This is a sweeping, immersive historical novel that invites the reader to inhabit Tudor history as it unfolds: Henry VIII’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon; Robert Aske’s rebels fighting the Dissolution of the Monasteries; the machinations of Cardinal Wolsey and Anne Boleyn.
It is, quite simply, one of the finest historical novels ever written.
‘A masterpiece’ Eamon Duffy
‘A classic of historical fiction … Captures all the poignant strangeness of the era’ Hilary Mantel
