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An absorbing biography ... meticulously researched... scholarly and intriguing
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
A biography that reads as thrillingly as a detective story, and is rich in details and authoritative in its analysis
Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times
Fascinating... A book based on gold-standard research, the kind of thing that puts most popular history writing to shame
Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday
An absorbing biography ... meticulously researched... scholarly and intriguing
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
A biography that reads as thrillingly as a detective story, and is rich in details and authoritative in its analysis
Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times
Fascinating... A book based on gold-standard research, the kind of thing that puts most popular history writing to shame
Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday
An absorbing biography ... meticulously researched... scholarly and intriguing
Peter Ackroyd, The Times
A biography that reads as thrillingly as a detective story, and is rich in details and authoritative in its analysis
Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times
Fascinating... A book based on gold-standard research, the kind of thing that puts most popular history writing to shame
Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday