The book is a big historical advance. Epic in scale, briskly paced and elegantly written... Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look qui ...
John Adamson, Sunday Times
The story of the rise and fall of the Stuart dynasty in England, as seen through the eyes of our often confused European neighbours ... Wonderfully clear and original.
Leanda de Lisle, The Times
A bracingly revisionist view of our history in the century after the Armada ... after reading Devil-Land 'this sceptered isle' and 'demi-paradise' is unlikely to look quite the same ever again.
David Reynolds, New Statesman
The book is a big historical advance. Epic in scale, briskly paced and elegantly written... Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look qui ...
John Adamson, Sunday Times
The story of the rise and fall of the Stuart dynasty in England, as seen through the eyes of our often confused European neighbours ... Wonderfully clear and original.
Leanda de Lisle, The Times
A bracingly revisionist view of our history in the century after the Armada ... after reading Devil-Land 'this sceptered isle' and 'demi-paradise' is unlikely to look quite the same ever again.
David Reynolds, New Statesman
The book is a big historical advance. Epic in scale, briskly paced and elegantly written... Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look qui ...
John Adamson, Sunday Times
The story of the rise and fall of the Stuart dynasty in England, as seen through the eyes of our often confused European neighbours ... Wonderfully clear and original.
Leanda de Lisle, The Times
A bracingly revisionist view of our history in the century after the Armada ... after reading Devil-Land 'this sceptered isle' and 'demi-paradise' is unlikely to look quite the same ever again.