Accession
  • Published: 17 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977637
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $26.00
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A captivating new novel concluding the dramatic story of Margaret Beaufort, the woman who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty

Margaret Beaufort and Margaret of Anjou - two women who have fought to the bitter end to see their sons take the English throne.

But with her son Edward killed in battle, and imprisoned herself, what next for Margaret of Anjou? And will Margaret Beaufort live to see Richard III deposed, and her son Henry Tudor finally ascend the throne? In this powerful and dramatic conclusion to Livi Michael's Wars of the Roses trilogy, the stakes are higher than ever, the sides are ever-changing, and all will be decided at the Battle of Bosworth . . .
  • Published: 17 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241977637
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $26.00
Categories:

About the authors

Michael Livi

Date: 2013-08-06
Livi Michael has writtten two previous novels: Under a Thin Moon, which won the Arthur Welton Award in 1992, and Their Angel Reach, which won the 1995 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Society of Authors Award, and was shortlisted for the John Steinbeck and John Llewellyn Rhys Awards. She lives in Lancashire with the poet Ian Pople and their two sons.

Livi Michael has published four novels for adults: Under a Thin Moon which won the Arthur Welton award in 1992, Their Angel Reach which won the Faber prize in 1995, All the Dark Air (1997) which was short-listed for the Mind Award, and Inheritance, which won a Society of Authors award. Livi has two sons and lives in Greater Manchester. She teaches literature part-time at the Manchester Metropolitan University and has been a senior lecturer in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.

Praise for Accession

She is the best of the modern chroniclers of these mediaeval wars . . . beautifully written, politically astute and full of insight into the moments when great history meets fragile human hearts.

The Times

Fine, taut writing . . . packs an emotional punch.

The Times on Rebellion

A gripping read full of historical detail

Woman Magazine on Rebellion

Praise for Succession:

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Lively . . . Michael paints the Middle Ages in spare and elegant prose

New York Times Book Review

Livi Michael invests intimate and poignant humanity into the personal tragedies of an era wrought with conflict and terror

Elizabeth Fremantle, author of The Queen's Gambit

Has the colour and power of the best of the chronicles

Sunday Times

Portrayed beautifully, honestly

Historical Novel Review