The Man On A Donkey Av H.F.M. Prescott

<p><b>''The most immersive book I''ve ever read... Truly brings Tudor England to life'' Frank Cottrell Boyce, <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><b>''One of the finest historical novels ever written'' <i>TLS</i></b><br><br>A forgotten literary masterpiece, <i>The Man on a Donkey</i> is less about the great figures who shape historical change and more about what it''s like to live through it.<br><br>This is a sweeping, immersive historical novel that invites the reader to inhabit Tudor history as it unfolds: Henry VIII''s divorce from Catherine of Aragon; Robert Aske''s rebels fighting the Dissolution of the Monasteries; the machinations of Cardinal Wolsey and Anne Boleyn.<br><br>It is, quite simply, one of the finest historical novels ever written.<br><br><b>''A masterpiece'' Eamon Duffy</b><br><br><b>''A classic of historical fiction... Captures all the poignant strangeness of the era'' Hilary Mantel</b></p>