Alison Weir is the biggest-selling female historian (and the fifth best-selling historian) in the UK since records began in 1997. She has published 23 titles and sold more than 3 million books – over a million in the UK and 2.2 million in the USA. She is now working on two concurrent series of books: 'Six Tudor Queens', comprising six novels on the wives of Henry VIII, and 'England's Medieval Queens', a quartet of historical works of non-fiction.