Philippa Gregory is the author of many New York Times bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women's history. Many of her works have been adapted for the screen including The Other Boleyn Girl. Her most recent novel, The Last Tudor, is now in production for a television series. She graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent. She holds honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and was awarded the 2016 Harrogate Festival Award for Contribution to Historical Fiction. She is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She founded Gardens for the Gambia, a charity to dig wells in poor rural schools in The Gambia, and has provided nearly 200 wells. She welcomes visitors to her website PhilippaGregory.com.
'A master storyteller...Gregory captures the intrigue and suspense
of life at the Tudor court in vivid detail. She skilfully combines
painstaking historical research with a gripping fictional narrative
and her characters are so lifelike and engaging that they
practically leap from the page' -- Daily Express
'A cleverly wrought political novel. In introducing Parr to a new
audience, Gregory has done the first lady of English letters
something of a favour' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Gregory dramatises the story of a reluctant royal wife negotiating
the anxious, dangerous years of her marriage... written with her
usual authority and capacity for great drama' -- Sunday Times
'The Taming of the Queen reads like a clever, intimate
thriller' -- The Times
'Gregory brilliantly captures the torn loyalties, treacheries and
tragedies that lie beneath the historical detail, to entertaining
effect' -- Good Housekeeping
'The contemporary mistress of historical crime' -- Kate Mosse
'Popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched
and superbly told' -- The Times
'Gregory creates a world in which all but the most determined women
are tools in the hands of powerful men... past-paced, convincing,
vivid and engrossing' -- Daily Express
'Philippa Gregory has another hit on her hands with this gripping
page-turner. Her novel simplifies and humanises the complex
politics of the period' -- Sunday Times
'Lady Margaret Beaufort - cold, clever, calculating - will stop at
nothing to put her son Henry Tudor on the throne. Gregory is very
good at describing the bitchiness of the women in this tale of
dynastic rivalry' -- Daily Telegraph
'Rollicking, page-turning stuff' -- Metro
'Popular history at its best' -- Daily Mail
'Meticulously researched...for each novel she immerses herself in
dozens of primary and secondary sources, before transforming them
into vivid fiction' -- Sunday Telegraph
'History comes gloriously alive as Elizabeth Woodville seduces and
marries Yorkist King Edward IV' -- Daily Mirror
'Philippa Gregory is truly the mistress of the historical novel. It
would be hard to make history more entertaining, lively or
engaging' -- Sunday Express
'Her novels are filled with strong, determined women who take their
fate into their own hands' -- Financial Times
'Rarely has history been so seductive' -- Tatler
'Gregory makes history come alive ... riveting' -- Daily Express
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