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Alison Weir
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- Narrated by: Alison Weir, Robin Morgan
- Length: 15 mins
- Speech
- Release date: 06-21-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: Audible Studios
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Publisher's Summary
Exclusive to Audible. Join Alison Weir in the studios talking about her ambitious six part series - Six Tudor Queens. Explaining the process of writing a historical novel and how her passion was first ignited, we are given a glimpse into what it takes to write about well-known but often misunderstood historical figures.
Alison Weir is a British writer of history books, and latterly historical novels, mostly in the form of biographies about British royalty. Her first published work, 1989's Britain's Royal Families, was a genealogical overview of the British royal family. She subsequently wrote biographies of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Katherine Swynford, and the Princes in the Tower.
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- Kirsten
- North Carolina
- 08-29-16
I LOVE ALISON WEIR!!!
I can't get enough of Alison Weir. She is the ONLY historian I trust. She has so much passion for the truth in history and it's so obsessive to her that it makes a true and trustworthy historian. Just love her!!
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- Miss N. Farooqui
- 02-10-17
An intriguing listen
love reading Alison Weir's book and was intrigued to learn about her inspirations on writing