The Man on a Donkey

Prescott, H. F. M.

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An enthralling novel about Henry VIII’s controversial dissolution of the monasteries.

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Publish Date: 03/10/2019
ISBN: 9781789545111 Category: Tag:

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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

Additional information

Weight 588 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 47 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xiii, 725

Language

English

Edition

New Edition

Dewey

823.912 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K