Update: I just received an email from Leanda de Lisle with some more information on the US edition and the UK paperback. First, the US edition will have updated information from the UK hardcover edition, including information on the Spinola letter. And second, the UK paperback has been pushed back to March to coincide with the National Gallery exhibition I blogged about previously. She’s also going to be giving at talk at the gallery that month on the 5th.
The first is a reminder of sorts, since the book has been out in the UK for a while – but the US edition of Leanda de Lisle’s The Sisters Who Would Be Queen is due out in the US in October, along with UK paperback edition (update – the paperback is now due out in March 2010). Here are both the US and UK pre-order links:
Next is a book I’ve mentioned in passing, but I haven’t put up affiliate links for – Alison Weir’s latest, The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn. See the podcast of her talk at the British Library for more information about the book.
And finally, I haven’t posted anything about this lately, but Eric Ives’ book on Lady Jane Grey is also due out in the UK in October. I haven’t found anything on a US release yet, but I’ll keep an eye out. UK Amazon pre-order link below.
They airbrushed and botoxed Anne for the U.S. cover of “The Lady in the Tower” 🙂
I’m very excited for all three books. I hope it makes the long winter more bearable.
So, I’m wondering why Anne looks so different in the UK and US versions of “Tower?” (The UK version looks the most accurate) What, was she not “attractive” enough for US audiences???
LOL!
Well at least it wasn’t just a close up of her breasts. Nice to see a face on the cover.
Two books on Lady Jane Grey! So when will we see the one from our own PhD here? I hope there is good news on an upcoming publication! (Crossing the fingers)
Lol at airbrushing former queens for American audience…….. 🙂
It’s weird… it looks like they used the NPG portrait on the UK edition and a later copy made of that portrait for the US edition, perhaps this one from the Royal Collection (with some photoshopping of the sleeve area… hard to tell if it is the same one without a better view of the version on the cover):
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?searchText=boleyn&x=0&y=0&object=404742&row=0
There is an even “softer” version on the cover of Robin Maxwell’s “Mademoiselle Boleyn”.
Just finished reading advance copy of Lady in the Tower – could not put it down!