Discover a story 400 years in the making - the definitive biography of the man who dominated
England in the first half of the sixteenth century ' Engrossing ' THE TIMES ' In this
excellent study Thomas More is reborn as a complex absorbing man ' DAILY TELEGRAPH ' [A]
immersive richly told account of life death faith and politics at the early Tudor court '
SPECTATOR ' THE definitive biography of one of history's most complex and often inscrutable
characters ' NATHEN AMIN 'Significant. Terrific. Meticulously researched. Beautifully
written' LITERARY REVIEW Born into the English Wars of the Roses educated in the European
Renaissance enthralled by the Age of Exploration and ultimately destroyed by Henry VIII
Thomas More is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Is he a
saintly scholar the visionary author of Utopia and an inspiration for statesmen socialists
and intellectuals even today? Or is he the stubborn zealot famously portrayed in Hilary
Mantel's Wolf Hall ? Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England is the definitive
biography of this hypnotic flawed figure. Overturning many received interpretations of the
sixteenth century Joanne Paul shows Thomas More to have been an intellectual and political
giant of his age central to the making of modern Europe. Based on new archival discoveries
and drawing on more than a decade's research into More's life and work this is a richly-told
story of family faith and politics and a compelling portrait of a man who more than four
hundred years after his death remains the most brilliant mind of the Renaissance. __ MORE
PRAISE FOR THOMAS MORE ' Paul has created a portrait of Thomas More that is epic intimate
and profoundly relatable to the modern reader ' LEAH REDMOND CHANG Women's Prize longlisted
historian of Young Queens ' Very impressive ' ALISON WEIR 'Wonderful riveting subtle.
Captures beautifully the life of More and the fading world he died to preserve' WALL STREET
JOURNAL ' A proper scholarly history as well as a wonderful narrative read ' SUSANNAH
LIPSCOMB ' Paul gives us a movingly human picture of a family man scholar politician and
ultimately political martyr ' ELIZABETH NORTON
