Guy specializes in the history of Tudor England and has written extensively on the subject including juvenile books. His books have been critically acclaimed, with My Heart is My Own: the Life of Mary Queen of Scots, being awarded the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award. This book and Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart served as inspiration for the 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots.[3]
He is the author of A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and his daughter Meg, 2008, and Elizabeth: the forgotten years, 2016.
Guy's style is one of re-assessment and evaluation; his works often involve him re-telling and re-evaluating history from a novel viewpoint.
Personal life
He is married to author Julia Fox, a former history teacher, who wrote Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford.
Bibliography
Tudor England (1988). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780192852137.
The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction (2000). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN0192854011
My Heart is my Own: The life of Mary, Queen of Scots (2004). New York City: Harper Perennial. ISBN1841157538.
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart (2005). Boston: Mariner Books. ISBN0618619178.
A Daughter's Love (2008). London: Fourth Estate.
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, A 900-year-old story retold (2012). New York City: Viking Books. ISBN0670918466.
The Children of Henry VIII (2013). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780192840905.
Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame (2014). London: Allen Lane. ISBN0141977124.
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years (2016). New York City: Viking Books. ISBN0670922250.
Thomas More: A Very Brief History (2017). London: SPCK Publishing. ISBN028107738X.
Gresham's Law: The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker (2019). London: Profile Books. ISBN1788162366.
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe with Julia Fox. (2023). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN1526631520