Philippa Gregory is an author I have recently discovered and I'm very glad I did. I've always been a little bit scared of reading historical fiction as I wasn't that good at history at school.

This author has written a whole load of books about the Tudors, probably the most famous one being "The other Boleyn Girl" about Ann Boleyns sister Mary.

What I love about her is she writes very informatively and eloquently yet makes her books accessible and very easy to read. They are very easy to get into and hard to put down and at the end of almost all the ones I've read so far you feel as if you got to know the characters and travelled back in time to meet them, yet you also come away feeling a little bit virtuous as if you learnt something.

Ok it's important to remember her work is fictional and she builds upon the bare facts by using a lot of imagination so its not completely historically correct, but if you've been wary of trying this kind of novel give Philippa Gregory a try.

Her novels are:
A Respectable trade
The Wisewoman
Fallen Skies
Mrs Hartley and the growth centre
Perfectly correct
The little house
Midlife mischief
Zelda's cut
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Queens Fool
The Virgins lover
The constant Princess
The Boleyn inheritance
There is also the Wideacre Trilogy and Earthly joys which has a sequel called The Virgin Earth

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Do you have a favourite cheese? I love all cheeses apart from the blue veined varieties so I would really find it difficult to pick a favourite one, but if I was pushed I think I would probably have to say Lancashire Crumbly because of the way it melts on your tongue, but I also adore Lancashire creamy both mild and mature, Red and White Cheddar, mild and mature, Leicester, Double Gloucester, Wensleydale and Cheshire to name but a few. do you have a favourite?

HI there, what jobs out of housework do you detest most and why,this applies to men as well as i know they do housework.
Mine is hoovering and ironing in case you want to know

All of them