Derek Wilson has been a writer of historical fiction and non-fiction for 50 years. His much acclaimed prize-winning works have largely centred on 16th and 17th century Europe. He has used various pen names for his fiction, his current Thomas Treviot Tudor crime series being written under the name D.K. Wilson. The first 2 books in this series - The First Horseman and The Traitor's Mark are based on real unsolved Tudor mysteries and have received enthusiastic plaudits. Readers have favourably compared this innovative series with the books of C.J. Sansom and S.J. Parris. Recent non-fiction triumphs include The Plantagenets, Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man, and Charlemagne: a Biography. Derek Wilson graduated from Cambridge and spent several years travelling and teaching in Africa before becoming a full-time writer and broadcaster in 1971. He has frequently written and appeared on radio and television and is popular as a public speaker having appeared at several literary festivals,British Museum, Hampton Court Palace, The British Library and other prestigious venues.
Series
Books
The Uncrowned Kings of England
The Black Legend of the Dudleys
2004
A Brief History of the Circumnavigators
1989
All the King's Women
2003
The People's Bible
The Remarkable History of the King James Version
2010
Hans Holbein
Portrait of an Unknown Man
1997
Rothschild
A Story of Wealth and Power
1988
Sir Francis Walsingham
Courtier in an Age of Terror
2007
The Mayflower Pilgrims
Sifting Fact from Fable
2019
Out of the Storm
The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther
2007
Superstition and Science
Mystics, sceptics, truth-seekers and charlatans
2017
The Cromwell Enigma
2020
Charlemagne
2005
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
1997
A Brief History of the English Reformation
2012
Unquiet Spirit
2006
A Brief History of Henry VIII
King, Reformer and Tyrant
2009
The Nature of Rare Things
2005
Tripletree
2004
The King and the Gentleman
Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1649
1999
Sweet Robin
A Biography of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester 1533-1588
1981
REFORMATIONS
1996
Mrs Luther and Her Sisters
Women in the Reformation
2016
Elizabethan Society
High and Low Life, 1558-1603
2014
In the Lion's Court
Power, Ambition, and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII
2001
The World Encompassed
Drake's Great Voyage 1577-1580
1977
The Tower
1979
Tudor England
2010
Calamities and Catastrophes
The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History
2011
The Queen and the Heretic
How two women changed the religion of England
2018
Plantagenets
The Kings That Made Britain
2014
Peter the Great
2009
The Plantagenets
The Kings That Made Britain
2011
