Joanne Paul: belief

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…Very last question. Your last book, Thomas More: A Life, was what led to this podcast. Please tell us if you can, what will you do next? What do you want to do next? I’ve got two more books under contract. I think I’m allowed to talk about one of them. In fact, it hasn’t been announced yet. I think there’s a press release forthcoming. I checked with my editor today and I am allowed to talk about it. It will be called Tyrant, and it will be a portrait of tyranny in the reign of Henry VIII. Not only an understanding, a greater understanding of his tyranny, of the character, the personality of a tyrant through Henry VIII, but I’m also very interested in the responses to tyranny, the work done by those who seek to prevent, to mitigate, to oppose tyranny, what their strategies were, successes, the failures, and really just to think about the concept, the nature, the expression of tyranny in the 16th century. Joanne Paul, thank you very much.…

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