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The Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps one of the most controversial and divisive monarchs in regal history. Her story reads like a particularly spicy novel, with murder, kidnap, adultery, assassination and execution. To some she is one of the most wronged women in history, a pawn used and abused by her family in the great monarchical marriage game; to others, a murderous adulteress who committed regicide to marry her lover and then spent years in captivity for the crime, endlessly plotting the demise of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England. This book covers the breathtaking scope of her amazing life and examines the immense cultural legacy she left behind, from the Schiller play of the 1800s to The CW teen drama Reign. Temptress, terrorist, or tragic queen, this book will give you the lowdown on one of history's most misunderstood monarchs.
Rasputin and his Russian Queen
Rasputinâs relationship with Russiaâs last Tsarina, Alexandra, notorious from the famous Boney M song, has never been adequately addressed; biographies are always for one or the other, or simply Alexandra and her husband Nicholas. In this new work, Mickey Mayhew reimagines Alexandra for the #MeToo generation: âneuroticâ; âhystericalâ; âcredulousâ and âfanaticalâ are shunted aside in favor of a sympathetic reimagining of a reserved and pious woman tossed into the heart of Russian aristocracy, with the sole purpose of providing their patriarchal monarchy with an heir. When the son she prayed for turns out to be a hemophiliac, she forms a friend...
House of Tudor: A Grisly History
Gruesome but not gratuitous, this decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers some forty-five 'events' from the Tudor reign, taking in everything from the death of Richard III to the botched execution of Mary Queen of Scots, and a whole host of horrors in between. Particular attention is paid to the various gruesome ways in which the Tudors dispatched their various villains and lawbreakers, from simple beheadings, to burnings and of course the dreaded hanging, drawing and quartering. Other chapters cover the various diseases prevalent during Tudor times, including the dreaded 'Sweating Sickness' - rather topical at the moment, unfortunately - as well as the cures for these sicknesses, some of which were considered worse than the actual disease itself. The day-to-day living conditions of the general populace are also examined, as well as various social taboos and the punishments that accompanied them, i.e. the stocks, as well as punishment by exile. Tudor England was not a nice place to live by 21st century standards, but the book will also serve to explain how it was still nevertheless a familiar home to our ancestors.
Jamie's Big Bang
London, 2006...Jack Woodfield had it sorted; brains, brawn, and sightly bulges. Working in a swank City firm, he's a modern man with a barrow boy's legacy best left behind. Jack's ditched West Ham United, Barking market, and especially his belligerent brother Jamie, not to mention their family's foolish talk of frisky phantoms; any gossip about great-uncles and their paranormal romances, 'entities from Essex', 'nasty nuns', or 'doomed debutantes' were cobblers as far as Jack was concerned. But over Jack's shoulder lurked his hell-raising cousin, Hayden 'the lad' Woodfield, the willing slave of the family's sinister familiar 'Minty Hardcore'; this naughty nun's preternatural predilection for ...
Jack and the Lad
London, 1736…A delectable young debutante boycotts the season's biggest society ball to visit the East End in search of a bit of rough; caught in the act by her father with beefy Barking barrow boy Jaden Woodfield, she's promptly sent to the nearest nunnery and locked up for the rest her natural life. Her real name is lost to the mists of time, but the sour old nuns soon gave her another one; they called her 'Minty Hardcore'.London, 2006…Jack Woodfield has it sorted; he's got brains, brawn, and sightly bulges. Working in a swank City firm, this modern man hails from a long line of hunky barrow boys. But Jack's ditching West Ham United, Barking market, and especially his belligerent broth...
Taking Tiffany
London, 2006…Jack Woodfield had it sorted; brains, brawn, and sightly bulges. Working in a swank City firm, he's a modern man with a barrow boy's legacy best left behind. Jack's ditched West Ham United, Barking market, and especially his belligerent brother Jamie, not to mention their family's foolish talk of frisky phantoms; any gossip about great-uncles and their paranormal romances, 'entities from Essex', 'nasty nuns', or 'doomed debutantes' were cobblers as far as Jack was concerned.But over Jack's shoulder lurked his hell-raising cousin, Hayden 'the lad' Woodfield, the willing slave of the family's sinister familiar 'Minty Hardcore'; this naughty nun's preternatural predilection for b...
Rasputin and His Russian Queen
Rasputin’s relationship with Russia’s last Tsarina, Alexandra, notorious from the famous Boney M song, has never been adequately addressed; biographies are always for one or the other, or simply Alexandra and her husband Nicholas. In this new work, Mickey Mayhew reimagines Alexandra for the #MeToo generation: ‘neurotic’; ‘hysterical’; ‘credulous’ and ‘fanatical’ are shunted aside in favor of a sympathetic reimagining of a reserved and pious woman tossed into the heart of Russian aristocracy, with the sole purpose of providing their patriarchal monarchy with an heir. When the son she prayed for turns out to be a hemophiliac, she forms a friendship with the one man capable ...
House of Tudor
Forty-five gruesome but not gratuitous accounts from the Tudor reign, including the death of Richard III and the botched execution of Mary Queen of Scots. This decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers a whole host of horrors from the Tudor reign. Particular attention is paid to the various gruesome ways in which the Tudors despatched their various villains and lawbreakers, from simple beheadings, to burnings and of course the dreaded hanging, drawing and quartering. Other chapters cover the various diseases prevalent during Tudor times, including the dreaded “Sweating Sickness”—rather topical at the moment, unfortunately—as well as the cures for these sicknesses...
Heroines of the Tudor World
The stories of the most remarkable women from European history in the time of the Tudor dynasty, 1485-1603.
The Anne Boleyn Bible
The definitive bible on all things Anne Boleyn from her guilt and execution to her relationship with Jesus Christ, as well as depiction of Anne in popular culture from TV series to West End musicals. Anne Boleyn sells, but she sells in segments; a biography here, a study over there on her guilt and something else yonder concerned with where she lived or what she liked to wear. This book, covering not just her life but her life onscreen, in theater, on TV and also the impact of the first black actress to play her, is the definitive, all-encompassing story of Anne Boleyn from 1501 (or thereabouts) to 2023. Having examined the ardent fandom of Anne Boleyn for his doctorate, Dr Mickey Mayhew is ...
