Some Interesting Reading

Sunday evening here in Alabama, expecting a thunder shower but no show so far. Been reading some interesting fiction of late. Started with the autobiagraphy of Henry VIII: with notes by his fool, Will Somers: a novel by Margaret George. It is a very entertaining hypothetical account of one of history's most intriquing characters. The author remains faithful to the historical data, but of course imagines the conversations and much that is left to the imagination. What interests me is the relationship to the Reformation period and the frequent references to the "Lutherans" and Henry's opinion of Luther.  I also read "Dissolution: a novel of Tudor England" by C.J. Sansom. It too gives an insight from a fictional viewpoint on what happened when the protestants gained a foothold in England as Henry challenged Rome for national supremacy. Then I'm now on my second novel by Karen Harper who wrote several mysteries with Elizabeth as the heroine detective who with her immediate staff solve the various conspiracies that history records in her ascendancy to the crown and her reign as Queen of England. Though written as fiction incorporating history of the period you get a real sense of what the period was like.

Anybody have any suggestions to follow up these readings. I particularly like historical fiction and the subject of how the Protestant Reformation developed in the 16th century is very interesting to me.