Praise for The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn:

“The best full-length life of Anne Boleyn and a monument to investigative scholarship.” David Starkey

“Splendidly successful ... clever, independent-minded and politically astute.” Antonia Fraser, The Sunday Times

“Eric Ives has made it unnecessary for anyone else to even make the attempt [to write a biography of Anne Boleyn] … a stunning portrait.” The Independent on Sunday

“Ives, a scholar utterly at home in early Tudor politics, has been writing about the Boleyns for more than two decades. His book represents a triumphant culmination of all that research, presented with clarity, wit and human sympathy.” Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Telegraph

“An excellent book … Its great strength is its sophisticated understanding of aristocratic women’s involvement in 16th-century politics, and precisely how this worked in practice.” Scotland on Sunday

“What is most exciting about The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn is not just that it has confirmed and solidified Ives’s earlier work … Rather, it is the development in methodology, the indication that cultural studies and the history of the book have provided us with new ways to evaluate evidence, to interpret the past.” The Spectator

“[Ives] delicately pieces together a believable identity ... lucid and coherent.” The Guardian

“Ives achieves the notable feat of combining magisterial historical authority with a gripping style, and sets the reader’s mind buzzing.” Times Literary Supplement

“What Ives doesn't know ... about the high politics and court life of Henry VIII’s England will either never be known or is not worth knowing.” London Review of Books

“The best book on Anne Boleyn ever written. This is a must for all lovers of Tudor history, academics and general readers alike.” BBC History Magazine Books of the Year