Philippa Gregory

...has an immediacy close to a dramatisation. Wolf Hall invades historical territory ably successfully occupied by C. J. Sansom and Philippa Gregory, but it treats its cast utterly differently. Mantel reinvents Henry VIII's thick-set fighting...

In this article: Anne Boleyn, Dog, Henry VIII, Thomas More, Tom Hicks, and Robert Bolt

...languages, however. Reading on the Pocket Edition is easy and intuitive. I read The Alchemyst by Michael Scott in BBeB format and Philippa Gregory's The White Queen in EPub: Both looked good and flowed neatly. Page turns were responsive,...

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...Content Server 4--ou have access to a fair amount of commercial content through various online vendors. I bought a copy of Philippa Gregory's The White Queen, a current best-seller, from EBooks.com, and downloaded the title to the...

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...that bestselling fiction is currently dominated by a whole range of fine female authors - Sarah Walters, Maeve Binchy, Hilary Mantel, Philippa Gregory, Kathy Reichs and Margaret Atwood? You couldn't accuse any of them of being airhead,...

In this article: Martin Amis, Katie Price, Yellow Dog, Lynda La Plante, Prince Edward, Paul O'Grady, The Times, and Threnody

...for a serious novel by a little-known writer. But then the topic of Henry VIII's love life is near and dear to American hearts, thanks to Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girland the TV series The Tudors. (Last year's Booker winner, The...

In this article: Newt Gingrich, USA Today, Henry VIII, George Washington, World War II, and Civil War

...television producers are increasingly using Twitter to help readers and viewers "connect" with the characters in their book or show. Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl, condensed her new novel, The White Queen, in to...

In this article: Twitter, Homer, William Shakespeare, Siemens, Philosophy, DVD, Oedipus the King, and University of Chicago

...and keeps the pace moving along. The only problem with the production is that the pauses between sections are not long enough. Philippa Gregory's "The White Queen'' poses quite the dilemma. It is beautifully read by Bianca Amato and...

In this article: Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV of England, Lionel Shriver, Richard III, Flashforward, Robert J. Sawyer, and Orange Prize for Fiction

Philippa Gregory's novel "The White Queen" is about the trials of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV during the period of English history known as the Wars of the Roses. One of the book's many surprises is its retreat from portraying...

In this article: Richard III, Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV, William Shakespeare, Anne Boleyn, Battle of Bosworth Field, Henry VIII, and Polydore Vergil

Maureen Waller on The White Queen by Philippa Gregory, a historical novel about Elizabeth Woodville Elizabeth Woodville is one of England's less well-known queens, partly because she was a commoner, besmirched by her enemies as the poor...

In this article: Elizabeth Woodville, Richard III, Edward IV, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Elizabeth of York, Edward V, and England

...Girl, Gregory has turned millions of readers into rabid amateur historians fixated on Henry VIII's mating woes. In her new novel, Gregory turns to the ruling family that preceded the Tudors, the Plantagenets. The White Queen is set...

In this article: Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV, White Queen, Richard III, Henry VIII, Henry VIII, USA Today, and The Other Boleyn Girl