Alison Weir Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/alison-weir/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:34:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Alison Weir Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/alison-weir/ 32 32 38398750 Tudor Time: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/tudor-time-is-over-for-now/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/tudor-time-is-over-for-now/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2020 04:53:36 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14217 April roared in with an exploding pandemic, a dangerous fool incapable of leading our country, and extended orders to stay home in Michigan. Normally, the kinds of things that stretch to the limit my delicate balancing act with stability. The good news is I had a family to keep me distracted. Not my own (sadly), […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/04/tudor-time-is-over-for-now/feed/ 2 14217 May Midmonth Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/may-midmonth-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/may-midmonth-mini-reviews/#comments Mon, 13 May 2019 07:11:32 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12683 I know it’s not the exactly the middle of May, but I’m hoping you all can cut me some slack. I’m on a hamster wheel of hurry-up-and-wait regarding our move to Michigan and so have to write when I can find time to disengage my analytical brain and tap into my creative mind. I used […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/08/july-reading-wrap/feed/ 11 6846 The Marriage Game: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth I https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/02/marriage-game/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/02/marriage-game/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:18:23 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3724 There is no shortage of books written about the Tudors and Elizabeth I in particular, but Alison Weir takes the Queen’s life in a very specific direction in her new novel The Marriage Game: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth I. There is so much of Elizabeth’s life that can be covered but in this novel Weir […]

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