All Manner of Things:
Book 2 of the Katherine of Aragon Story
Falling Pomegranate Seeds
by Wendy J. Dunn
Winter, 1539.
Too ill to travel from her London home, María de Salinas writes a letter to her daughter Katherine, the young duchess of Suffolk. A letter telling of her life: a life intertwined with her friend and cousin Catalina of Aragon, the youngest child of Isabel of Castile. It is a letter to help her daughter understand the choices she has made in her life, beginning from the time she keeps her vow to Catalina to share her life of exile in England.
Friendship.
Betrayal.
Hatred.
Forgiveness.
Will love win out in the end?
Awards:
2023: Book Excellence Finalist.
2022: Eric Hoffer Award Finalist
2021 Chaucer Award 1st place in Tudor Fiction.
2021: silver medallist in Readers’ Favorite for historical personage.
finalist for the 2021 Chaucer Award.
2021: Silver Medallist in The Coffee Pot Book Club Book of the Year Award (Tudor and Stuart category)
2021: Gold Medal in the Historical Fiction Company awards for fiction set in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
2021: Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite.
Praise for All Manner of Things:
'If Tudor history is your passion - or even if it's not - this is a book to enjoy again and again.'
~ The Historical Fiction Company
Wendy J. Dunn
Wendy J. Dunn is an award-winning Australian writer fascinated by Tudor history – so much so she was not surprised to discover a family connection to the Tudors, not long after the publication of her first Anne Boleyn novel, which narrated the Anne Boleyn story through the eyes of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder.
Her family tree reveals the intriguing fact that one of her ancestral families – possibly over three generations – had purchased land from both the Boleyn and Wyatt families to build up their own holdings. It seems very likely Wendy’s ancestors knew the Wyatts and Boleyns personally.
Wendy is married, the mother of three sons and one daughter—named after a certain Tudor queen, surprisingly, not Anne. She is also the grandmother of two amazing small boys. She gained her PhD in 2014 and loves walking in the footsteps of the historical people she gives voice to in her novels. Wendy also tutors at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
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