I went through your rec tag and couldn't find anything, but apologies if you've answered this before! Book recs for War of the Roses (fiction and non-fiction)? There has to be more to life than Philippa Gregory!
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman. Full stop. Best book on the Wars of the Roses (and Iāve read, like, most of them), look no further. My fiction recs are sparse, because most of them that Iāve read (Gregory, obviously, but also The Stolen Crown, The Kingās Daughter, A Rose for the Crown etc etc etc) are at best okay, but unremarkable. I DID like
The Adventures of Alienore Audley, by Brian Wainwright
The Founding, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey (well, you really MUST read it to round things out, itās a classic, butāwell, mixed feelings)
As for nonfiction (and I would like to state here that I donāt necessarily subscribe to the interpretation of each of these, but theyāre decent reads):
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses, by Sarah Gristwood
Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes, by Bertram Fields
Richard III: The Maligned King, by Annette Carson
Elizabeth Wydeville, the Slandered Queen, by Arlene Naylor OkerlundĀ
Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, by Thomas Penn
Blood and Roses: One Familyās Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses, by Helen Castor
Stay away from Weir. And Plaidy. (General rule-of-thumb for LIFE, but especially relevant here.)
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