- Published: 4 April 2019
- ISBN: 9781784160494
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $45.00
Houses of Power
The Places that Shaped the Tudor World
- Published: 4 April 2019
- ISBN: 9781784160494
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $45.00
One of the most exciting new book releases of 2017: Our fascination with all things Tudors shows no sign of abating and Simon Thurley’s Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World promises to take readers right to the very heart of that world. From homes to palaces, sleeping arrangements to soft furnishings, it’s an illuminating look at the material world of the 16th century.
BBC History Magazine
Unrivalled architectural expertise... Superb writing...A triumph: a masterly collective biography of [Tudor Royal] buildings, replete with insights into their owners’ private lives and into politics, diplomacy and court etiquette.
Literary Review
[Simon Thurley] certainly loves his subject. An enthusiasm that steadily bubbles forth from Houses of Power....Thurley’s reconstruction of these rooms is fascinating, but even more so is his description of what went on in them ... A suitably opulent book
Gerard DeGrout, The Times
Excellent... Fresh, learned, readable and full of life, [Houses of Power] is the Tudors At Home, as you've never seen them before.
Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday
Immensely informative.
Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph
This is a landmark book. Nobody interested in Tudor England can afford not to own a copy of this gateway into a lost world … compulsively readable.
Sir Roy Strong, Country Life
One of the finest works of historical reconstruction I have ever encountered.
Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald
An absorbing account of the lives of these royal houses. It is a journey not just from palace to hunting lodge to castle, but into the small and poignant details of domestic existence.
Times Literary Supplement