References Used


One of the advantages of writing historical fiction is that you have a worthy excuse for buying great reference books. Some of the works that I found most useful and dipped into (or even lived in) are listed here:

Title

Author

ISBN

Edward VI, The Lost king of England

Chris Skidmore.

0-312-35142-9

The Arch-Conjuror of England, John Dee

Glyn Parry

978-0-300-11719-6

Thomas Cranmer

Diarmid MacCulloch

978-0-300-07448-2

Tudors

Peter Ackroyd

978-1-250-05460-9

London, The Biography

Peter Ackroyd

978-0-099-42258-7

The Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England

Ian Mortimer

978-0-14-312563-1

Elizabeth's London

Liza Picard

978-0-312-32566-4

How to be a Tudor

Ruth Goodman

978-0-241-97371-4

God's Secret Agents

Alice Hogge

978-0-06-054228-3

The Queen's Agent

John Cooper

978-1-60598-410-0

The Watchers, The Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I

Stephen Alford

978-1-60819-009-6

The Corporation that Changed the World
How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational

Nick Robins

978-0-7453-2523-1

John Dee, 1527 - 1608

Charlotte Fell-Smith