Thomas Starkey and the Commonwealth: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry VIII
Thomas Starkey (c. 1495-1538) was the most Italianate Englishman of his generation. This book places Starkey into new and more appropriate contexts, both biographical and intellectual, taking him out of others in which he does not belong, from displaced Roundhead to follower of Marsilio of Padua.
Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot. Carol Starkey was a rising light in the LAPD Bomb Squad until, two years back, a bomb blew up in her face, maiming her and killing her lover/partner.
David Starkey - Elizabeth
Elizabeth I holds a unique place in the English imagination as
one of the nation's most powerful, charismatic and successful monarchs. She is usually imagined as the icy, untouchable figure memorably
recreated on screen by Bette Davis and Judi Dench, but that vision of
Elizabeth ignores the turbulent years of her early life, from her birth
as the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533, until her
accession to the throne in 1558 following the death of her sister Mary.
It is these early years which are the subject of David Starkey's
fascinating
Elizabeth I, written to accompany his television series about the life of Elizabeth.
