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Salman Rushdie to talk about surviving murder bid at Edinburgh book festival
16 Apr 2024 11:51 GMT
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Our first author events for 2024, a … 47;PA Wire)Alice Oseman, author of Heartstopper – now a … PA)Historical novelist Philippa Gregory will discuss her new non-fiction book, Normal … Women, on August 22, with young adult author …
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All Booked: Reader Spotlight: Brit
10 Apr 2024 20:31 GMT
… horror / sci-fi, and Philippa Gregory for historical fiction.
Q: What … you consume any bookish content? Podcasts? Blogs? Bookstagram? Booktok?
A: Bookstagram and a couple … Gamez
It’s a novel by a BIPOC author with an interesting …
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Philippa Gregory: ‘I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut’
30 Mar 2024 09:41 GMT
Born in Kenya, Philippa Gregory, 70, wrote her first novel while completing a PhD … to write many popular historical novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl …
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Historical Fiction Novelist Philippa Gregory On The Iconic Women Who Inspired Her Acclaimed Work
29 Mar 2024 20:53 GMT
… with Philippa Gregory’s extensive catalogue of historical fiction novels know her … York Times bestselling author discusses her latest book as well as … that's been published because so much of it … about and there is nothing published on her at all [...] …
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Suffolk theatre’s role in famous novelist’s play challenging history’s hatchet job on Richard III
09 Apr 2024 05:08 GMT
… written by world-renowned historical novelist Philippa Gregory, which premiered in March and … She is the first new author to have a play staged … to view it with an author’s analytical eye.
“I … most recent book is non-fiction. “Last year I published Normal Women …
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Normal Women: 900 years of women making history, by Philippa Gregory
23 Mar 2024 15:38 GMT
… years of women making history
Philippa Gregory
William Collins, £25, 688 pages … women to society”.
Although the book at times turns into a … index.
Like all history, the book is most illuminating about the … . And yet this is a book which should be of interest …
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Philippa Gregory’s first play rescues Richard III from Shakespeare
13 Mar 2024 04:10 GMT
In his 1999 book Shakespeare: The Invention of the … spider” Richard was physically unremarkable.
Philippa Gregory’s first play seeks to …
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Philippa Gregory: 'Some male historians don't like women's history'
12 Mar 2024 09:36 GMT
… historian and best-selling novelist Philippa Gregory attended a funeral at … on a man. The author has made her name … men. Her most recent book, published last autumn, was Normal … was just folderol.”
Historian and novelist Philippa Gregory (Photo: Chris Leah)
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Philippa Gregory on her favorite historical fiction writers
12 Mar 2024 18:02 GMT
GREGORY: A research book, “Travel Knowledge” by Ivo Kamps. It’s a collection of first-person accounts and captains’ logs from the earliest voyages. I’m particularly interested in a voyage to West Africa in 1601. I just read “The Bell” by Iris Murdoch, who …
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Philippa Gregory, reigning queen of Tudor romance, has a new ambition
07 Mar 2024 13:00 GMT
Cracking open a Philippa Gregory novel is like yanking down the … 15 novels, about the Tudors and Plantagenets. (She has also published more … than a dozen books set in other …