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Suzannah Dunn

    Suzannah Dunn crafts compelling historical narratives, primarily focusing on the lives of Tudor women, imbuing them with psychological depth and meticulous detail. Her writing style is rich and insightful, exploring the hidden motivations and societal constraints faced by these influential figures. Through evocative storytelling, she offers readers an intimate glimpse into their destinies and the eras they inhabited. Her works are distinguished by their immersive historical atmosphere and profound empathy for her characters.

    The May Bride
    The Lady of Misrule
    The Queen of Subtleties
    Quite Contrary
    The sixth wife
    Tenterhooks
    • 2024

      An unsettling novel about the secrets, lies and omissions of a small rural community by bestselling novelist Suzannah Dunn.

      Levitation for Beginners
    • 2020
    • 2016

      Dinner At The Long Table

      • 312 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      From the acclaimed owner of Brooklyn’s Diner, Marlow & Sons, Marlow & Daughters, Reynard, The Ides, Achilles Heel, She Wolf Bakery, Marlow Goods, Roman’s, and the Wythe Hotel comes this debut cookbook capturing a year’s worth of dishes meant to be shared among friends. Andrew Tarlow has grown a restaurant empire on the simple idea that a meal can somehow be beautiful and ambitious, while also being unfussy and inviting. Personal and accessible, Dinner at the Long Table brings Tarlow’s keen eye for combining design and taste to a collection of seventeen seasonal menus ranging from small gatherings to blow-out celebrations. The menus encompass memorable feasts and informal dinners and include recipes like a leisurely ragu, followed by fruit and biscotti; paella with tomato toasts, and a Catalan custard; fried calamari sandwiches and panzanella; or a lamb tajine with spiced couscous, pickled carrots, and apricots in honey. Dinner at the Long Table includes family-style meals that have become a tradition in his home. Written with Anna Dunn, the cookbook is organized by occasion and punctuated with personal anecdotes and photography. Much more than just a beautiful cookbook, Dinner at the Long Table is a thematic exploration into cooking, inspiration, and creativity, with a focus on the simple yet innate human practice of preparing and enjoying food together.

      Dinner At The Long Table
    • 2015

      From the bestselling author of The Confession of Katherine Howard, the story of two years at the Seymour family home, Wolf Hall, that changed Jane Seymour's life for ever.'I loved this powerful book and can't recommend highly enough' Martina Cole

      The May Bride
    • 2015

      Elizabeth Tilney volunteers to escort and remain with Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for nine days, to the Tower of London, through the increasingly unstable end of 1553, and has her loyalties severely tested.

      The Lady of Misrule
    • 2009
    • 2008

      The Queen's Sorrow

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      2.6(50)Add rating

      A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused -- the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Plain, dutiful and a passionate Catholic, Mary Tudor was overjoyed by joy when she became England's queen. After the misery of her childhood, when her father had rejected her mother, and effectively disowned his daughter, Mary felt at last that she was achieving her destiny. And when she marries Philip of Spain, her happiness is complete. But Mary's delight quickly turns sour as she realises that her husband does not love her. In fact he finds her devotion irritating. Desperate for a baby, she begins to believe that God is punishing her. Her people are horrified at the severity of the measures she takes and begin to turn against their queen who is lonely, frightened -- and desperate for love. Rafael, a member of Philip of Spain's entourage, is a reluctant witness to the unfolding tragedy and as the once-feted queen tightens her cruel hold on the nation, Rafael becomes closer to Mary and his life -- and new-found love -- are caught up in the terrible chaos that follows.

      The Queen's Sorrow
    • 2007

      'The Sixth Wife' is a gripping novel of love, passion, betrayal and heartbreak. Catharine Parr survived Henry VIII to find true love with Thomas Seymour - only to realise that her love was based on a lie.

      The sixth wife
    • 2005

      The Queen of Subtleties

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.4(1856)Add rating

      A tremendously vivid, page-turning and plausible novel that depicts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the most spirited, independent and courageous of Henry's queens, as viewed from both the bedrooms and the kitchens of the Tudor court.

      The Queen of Subtleties
    • 1999

      Tenterhooks

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.6(18)Add rating

      These stories offer observations of women's lives. From the tale of Auntie Fay's trip to Spain for the summer (tanning to the hue of a blood blister and routinely saving the skins of Renee and her unfortunate family), to the sixth form field trip (of stale cigarettes, smuggled scotch, and mutiny).

      Tenterhooks