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Philippa Gregory (born 9 January 1954) is a British writer of historical novels since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Philippa Gregory was born on 9 January 1954 in Nairobi, Kenya, the second daughter of Elaine (Wedd) and Arthur Percy Gregory, a radio operator and navigator for East African Airways. When she was two years old, her family moved to Bristol, England.
She was a "rebel" at Colston's Girls' School where she obtained a B grade in English and two E grades in History and Geography at A-level. She then went to journalism college in Cardiff and spent a year as an apprentice with the Portsmouth News before she managed to gain a place on an English literature degree course at the University of Sussex, where she switched to a history course. She worked in BBC radio for two years before attending the University of Edinburgh, where she earned her doctorate in 18th-century literature. Gregory has taught at the University of Durham, University of Teesside, and the Open University, and was made a Fellow of Kingston University in 1994.
Gregory wrote her first novel Wideacre while completing a PhD in 18th-century literature and living in a cottage on the Pennine Way with first husband Peter Chislett, editor of the Hartlepool Mail, and their baby daughter, Victoria. They divorced before the book was published.
Following the success of Wideacre and the publication of The Favoured Child, she moved south to near Midhurst, West Sussex, where the Wideacre trilogy was set. Here she married her second husband Paul Carter, with whom she has a son. She divorced for a second time and married Anthony Mason, whom she had first met during her time in Hartlepool.
Gregory now lives on a 100-acre (0.40 km2) farm in the North York Moors national park, with her husband, children and stepchildren (six in all). Her interests include riding, walking, skiing, and gardening.
She has written novels set in several different historical periods, though primarily the Tudor period and the 16th century. Reading a number of novels set in the 17th century led her to write the bestselling Lacey trilogy — Wideacre, which is a story about the love of land and incest, The Favoured Child and Meridon. This was followed by The Wise Woman. A Respectable Trade, a novel of the slave trade in England, set in 18th-century Bristol, was adapted by Gregory for a four-part drama series for BBC television. Gregory's script was nominated for a BAFTA, won an award from the Committee for Racial Equality, and the film was shown worldwide.
Two novels about a gardening family are set during the English Civil War: Earthly Joys and Virgin Earth, while she has in addition written contemporary fiction - Perfectly Correct, Mrs Hartley And The Growth Centre, The Little House and Zelda's Cut. She has also written for children.
Some of her novels have won awards and have been adapted into television dramas. The most successful of her novels has been The Other Boleyn Girl, published in 2002 and adapted for BBC television in 2003 with Natascha McElhone, Jodhi May and Jared Harris. In the year of its publication, The Other Boleyn Girl also won the Romantic Novel of the Year and it has subsequently spawned sequels — The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, The Constant Princess, The Boleyn Inheritance, and The Other Queen. Miramax bought the film rights to The Other Boleyn Girl and produced a film of the same name starring Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn and co-starring Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn, Eric Bana as Henry Tudor, Juno Temple as Jane Parker, and Kristin Scott Thomas as Elizabeth Boleyn. It was filmed in England and generally released in February 2008.
Gregory has also published a series of books about the Plantagenets, the ruling houses that preceded the Tudors, and the Wars of the Roses. Her first book The White Queen, published in 2009, centres on the life of Elizabeth Woodville the wife of Edward IV. The Red Queen, published in 2010, is about Margaret Beaufort the mother of Henry VII and grandmother to Henry VIII. The Lady of the Rivers, published 2011, is the life of Jacquetta of Luxembourg, mother of Elizabeth Woodville, first married to John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, younger brother of Henry the Fifth. The Kingmaker's Daughter, published in 2012, is about Anne Neville, the daughter of the Earl of Warwick, the wife of Richard III. The next book is titled The White Princess, and centres on the life of Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII and the mother of Henry VIII.
She is a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers, with short stories, features and reviews. She is also a frequent broadcaster and a regular contestant on Round Britain Quiz for BBC Radio 4 and the Tudor expert for Channel 4's Time Team. She won the 29 December 2008 edition of Celebrity Mastermind on BBC1, taking Elizabeth Woodville as her specialist subject.
About author and audiobooks:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Gregory |
The Wars of the Roses
Philippa Gregory - The White Queen (read by Emilia Fox, Sandra Duncan and Gareth Armstrong)
Philippa Gregory - The Red Queen (read by Bianca Amato and Graeme Malcolm)
Philippa Gregory - The Lady Of The Rivers (read by Bianca Amato)
Philippa Gregory - The Kingmaker's Daughter (read by Bianca Amato)
Philippa Gregory - The White Princess (read by Bianca Amato)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/326db20ce58f7ddb9b3d57feff953ef5/The_White_Queen.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/80539f5955fb18bde1597d6799ae87cd/The_Red_Queen.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/15614517f1d1620b7746a6d09815b7ff/The_Lady_Of_The_Rivers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/68d63d287ee0f924e368f06f097fde99/The_Kingmakers_Daughter.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/32901226447986275b622301aaea1a99/The_White_Princess.rar.html |
The Tudor series
Philippa Gregory - The Queen's Fool (read by Bianca Amato)
Philippa Gregory - The Virgin's Lover (read by Davina Porter)
Philippa Gregory - The Constant Princess (read by Diana Bishop)
Philippa Gregory - The Boleyn Inheritance (read by Davina Porter, Bianca Amato and Charlotte Parry)
Philippa Gregory - The Other Queen (read by Ron Keith, Jenny Sterlin and Stina Nielsen)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/0453a7a08495bb642bb0c2cc04d0fc82/The_Queens_Fool.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2de9ade70100d19bb85e644c34f47015/The_Virgins_Lover.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/511e5cac2d4dfc2d262187d459d91f11/The_Constant_Princess.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/dcdb3d1f630fb1e9ce79a4d5509d0eb6/The_Boleyn_Inheritance.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c5c4019b4f8c642075b68ac5f7527962/The_Other_Queen.rar.html |
Earthly Joys
Philippa Gregory - Earthly Joys (read by Steven Crossley)
Philippa Gregory - Virgin Earth (read by Tony Hister?)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/44ec1b26fd56c58dc94dd7e530f73f2a/Earthly_Joys.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f5d3fff34d7a1056dc96f22c5ac9aba5/Virgin_Earth.rar.html |
Wideacre trilogy
Philippa Gregory - Wideacre (read by Jilly Bond)
Philippa Gregory - The Favoured Child (read by Liz Hollis)
Philippa Gregory - Meridon (read by Diana Bishop)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/6ef48ff93f4f1ccc89bc6f65fb4d568d/Wideacre.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d8124a9faf4c1e52d9ab16b8d711b2c7/The_Favoured_Child.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0e2cba07c56eff3aaece32688ce895c1/Meridon.rar.html |
Non-series works
Philippa Gregory - A Respectable Trade (read by Diana Bishop)
Philippa Gregory - The Wise Woman (UNKNOWN reader)
Philippa Gregory - Fallen Skies (read by Marie McCarthy)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/b7fd5fdc090dbc2a01ecd1c0d4a3c930/A_Respectable_Trade.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/353291a7c63a0a424d72a8a0321d789f/The_Wise_Woman.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6cf331ffef901002d843055171573c75/Fallen_Skies.rar.html |
Children's works
Philippa Gregory - Changeling (read by Charlie Cox and Bianca Amato)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/d3c76ec5ede00a0af396f11a685c03cb/Changeling.rar.html |
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