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Unpacking the self-reflexive mirage that is human consciousness. The book manages to be thoughtful, insightful, whimsical and touching.

This was written for World Book Day this year in conjunction with the BBC in an attempt to get more people interested in reading, something I fully support! It's a very short, factual read, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I really liked how it was obvious that Weir was really enthusiastic about Lady Jane Grey and Anne Boleyn, they were less a string of facts, dates and accounts as little works of prose. I would really recommend Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir, it's a really fantastic read if you, like me, are fascinated the Tudor period. That was why I picked this up from the library along with another full length novel. Oddly, I have The Other Boleyn Girl somewhere and I hate that book. It is the driest piece of overhyped literature I think I have ever picked up. Though maybe, unlike the masses who raved on and on about it when it came out, I have just read vastly better material by vastly better authors, i.e. Alison Weir. End rant! This is a short review for a short book, it's good if you like reading about the English monarchy around the late 1400s to the early 1600s, in which case you probably know about Margaret Pole and the three queens who were killed in the Tower, but it gives a nice, straightforward account of events and circumstances and speculation on motives surrounding the deaths. I liked it!