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Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Adventures in Time (Paperback)
Dominic Sandbrook (author)Published: 05/10/2023
Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true
'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...'
Step through these pages into the Tudor world: a dangerous place, where one miss-step could cost your life. Through the eyes of Henry VIII's six very different queens, from a brave Spanish princess to a wise English widow, historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a thrilling journey through the twists and turns of a dramatic age. For no one is safe from the wheel of fortune: it can take you from a golden throne to the Tower of London...
The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood. The only difference is they actually happened...
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141994284
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 240 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 17 mm
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History and fiction meld in a spectacular new series retelling thrilling tales from past eras, all with the benefit of the latest research. - Financial Times
Few plots can rival the real-life dramas played out in the superb Adventures in Time series by the historian Dominic Sandbrook, one of the most exciting new voices in children's non-fiction. - Daily Telegraph
The brio of the accounts sweep children along on the adventure and introduce them to the way in which history shapes our modern world. - Daily Mail Children's Books of the Year 2021
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