Joanne Paul is a writer, broadcaster, consultant, and Honorary
Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History at the University of
Sussex. A BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, her research focuses on
the intellectual and cultural history of the Renaissance and Early
Modern periods. She has written for the Cambridge University Press
'Ideas in Context' series, and has been widely praised for her work
on Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes.
Her current academic project is an edition of Thomas More's Utopia
for the Oxford University Press.
Her first book for the trade, The House of Dudley was published in
2022. Thomas More- A Life is publishing Spring 2025.
A tour-de-force of Tudor history, as seen through the eyes of a
family with a front-row view of almost every major political event
in sixteenth-century England. Remarkable
*Dan Jones, Sunday Times bestselling author of Powers and
Thrones*
Exciting and immersive. An immensely entertaining history,
capturing in full Tudor brilliance the cut-throat glamour of the
English throne and the most audacious family to play its game
*Sunday Times*
House of Dudley is a full-blooded affair, as good on the horrors of
war as it is on the soft power of the Dudley women, and written in
a lively, episodic style that presents each Dudley as a foil to the
monarch they served
*Jessie Childs*
Breathes new life into an old and familiar Tudor story. [She]
negotiates the labyrinth of Tudor politics with skill, producing a
book much more comprehensible and illuminating than others I've
read . . . It's delightful, a joy to read
*The Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK*
I am hugely impressed by The House of Dudley and by the depths of
research.
This is a pacy narrative, vividly written, that makes you want to
read on and on.
Joanne Paul is a major new talent in the field and I eagerly await
her next book
*Alison Weir*
This is riveting stuff: death, desire, power and scandal. Paul has
made the most of it, producing a well written and historically
grounded page-turner . . . Game of Thrones looks tame compared with
the real-life machinations of the Dudleys and the Tudors
*Spectator*
A twist on the Tudors . . . Enormously entertaining - a sheer joy
to read
*The Times, '25 BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2022'*
A hugely entertaining history of three generations of the Dudley
family, who dominated the Tudor court
*The Times*
A thrilling and deeply researched study of power and conspiracy:
the rise and fall of the other Tudor dynasty. The House of Dudley
illuminates the fascinating men and women who almost became kings
and queens in their own right
*Simon Sebag-Montefiore*
Vivid, innovative and authoritative. I could not recommend The
House of Dudley more highly. It's a real lesson in how to
revitalise the writing of Tudor history
*Sarah Gristwood*
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