Bibliography, June 2012

Read: 6
BOTM: T.Penn, Winter King

A. Christie, At Bertram's Hotel
G.R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones
G.R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
M. Robinson, Housekeeping
P. Roth, Goodbye Columbus


That's better, though I feel the glory days of twenty books a month are gone forever. No surprises for BOTM either, though I am going to write about Game of Thrones another time. Henry VII has long been my favourite Henry, even if not the best (I divide the Henrys into good - I,II,V,VII - and bad - III, IV,VI, VIII). Thomas Penn's book is a classic. It's not, as I and others have thought, a biography of the Henry VII, but a meticulous and engrossing documenting of the last 8-9 years of the reign, chronicling his descent into ruthless, grasping paranoia, set against the rise of his son. It's magnificent, and bringing into sharp focus the ever-present spectre of civil war that - but for Henry VII - we would have fought for a lot longer.