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Jessie Childs

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History, Biography, Nonfiction

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Jessie Childs is an award-winning historian, broadcaster and the author of God's Traitors (PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History), Henry VIII's Last Victim (Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography) and, most recently, The Siege of Loyalty House, which tells the story of the heroic resistance of a royalist mansion in the English Civil War. Simon Schama has called it ‘extraordinary, thrilling, immersive… at times almost Tolstoyan in its emotional intelligence and literary power’.

Jessie has written and reviewed for many papers, including the Sunday Times, Guardian and London Review of Books. TV contributions include the BAFTA-nominated Elizabeth I's Secret Agents (BBC 2 & PBS) and two BBC series on Charles I.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 844 ratings · 117 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story 3.95 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England 3.92 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 3.97 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like to read in March 2015?

Sisters of Treason by Elizabeth Fremantle

12 votes, 16.2%

Her Highness, the Traitor, by Susan Higginbotham

11 votes, 14.9%

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

9 votes, 12.2%

The Marriage Game: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

7 votes, 9.5%

The Lady in the Tower by Jean Plaidy

7 votes, 9.5%

The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England by Ann Wroe

5 votes, 6.8%

Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen by Anna Whitelock

5 votes, 6.8%

Crown of Thistles by Linda Porter

4 votes, 5.4%

The Boleyn Deceit by Laura Andersen

3 votes, 4.1%

God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs

3 votes, 4.1%

Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir

3 votes, 4.1%

Murder at Hatfield House by Amanda Carmack

2 votes, 2.7%

The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Womens' Stories by Amy Licence

2 votes, 2.7%

Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister by Robert Hutchinson

1 vote, 1.4%

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