The Man on a Donkey: A Powerful Novel of England in the Reign of Henry VIII. This item is unavailable.The Man on a Donkey: A Powerful Novel of England in the Reign of Henry VIII

The King's men are despoiling the monasteries and dividing church wealth among the royal favourites and a rebellion is brewing in the north. H.F.M. Prescott's novel tells the story of one of the most tumultuous events in British history. In 1536 Henry VIII was almost toppled from his throne when Northern England rose to oppose the Dissolution of the Monasteries. For a few weeks Robert Aske, the leader of the rebels, held the fate of the entire nation in his hand. THE MAN ON A DONKEY is an enthralling novel set in this difficult and complex period in history, when England's Catholic heritage was scattered to the four winds by a powerful and arrogant king. First published in 1952.

H F M Prescott was born in Cheshire. She read Modern History at Oxford and later received MA degrees there and at Manchester, as well as an honorary doctorate at Durham. She is best known for her historical novel THE MAN ON A DONKEY and her biography of Mary Tudor which won the James Tait Black Prize in 1941. The daughter of a clergyman, she was a committed member of the church of England, and her wide-ranging interests included travel and a deep love of the English countryside that lasted all her life. She died in 1972.