We have some recommended reading which may be of interest to anyone who has been caught up in the BBC drama series The White Queen. The series was of course based on Philippa Gregory’s bestselling historical novel series The Cousins’ War. We’ve included some other fiction set during the Wars of the Roses, and also some non-fiction, including The Last Days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA, the book that inspired the archaeological dig which lead to the recent discovery of Richard III’s remains in Leicester.
Gregory’s latest book, The White Princess, tells the story of Elizabeth of York who became Henry VII’s queen.
- The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
- The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
- The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
- The Kingmaker’s Daughter by Philippa Gregory
- The killing of Richard III by Robert Farrington
- The last days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA : The book that inspired the dig by John Ashdown-Hill
- The daughter of time by Josephine Tey
- Richard III : the maligned king by Annette Carson
- Queen of silks by Vanora Bennett
- Virgin widow : England’s forgotten queen by Anne O’Brien
- The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
- A secret alchemy by Emma Darwin
- The women of the Cousins’ war : The Duchess, the Queen and the King’s mother by Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, Michael Jones
- The Princes in the tower by Alison Weir
- Blood royal by Vanora Bennett
- The Yorkists : the history of a dynasty by Anne Crawford
- A brief history of the Wars of the Roses by Desmond Seward
- Blood Sisters : The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood
- The sunne in splendour by Sharon K. Penman
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