David Starkey's magisterial account of Elizabeth I's reign - a number one bestseller.
Dr David Starkey is a historian and broadcaster, and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. In 2000 he presented the acclaimed Channel Four series Elizabeth, and in 1998 he presented David Starkey's Henry VIII, also on Channel Four. He writes regularly for both popular newspapers and learned journal, and is a controversial panellist on Radio 4's The Moral Maze. An expert on constitutional history, he is the author of several other books on the Tudor period. For further information, and details of forthcoming projects, see www.davidstarkey.com.
Fresh and lively... Vividly told... He sets before us not only the
woman behind the throne but the girl behind the woman
*Sunday Times*
The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth... One
of the most zestful pieces of narrative history written...a racy
read and first-rate history
*Evening Standard*
What a page turner! A white knuckle ride through history...inspired
research, from the clues embedded in the portraits to court
ceremonial to the often circumlocutory letters
*Time Out*
I found myself compelled by David Starkey's vivid recreation of the
hazardous uncertainty of Elizabeth's early life, her successive
exclusions from the centre of power, the studiedly ambiguous
answers she offered her interrogators, her inevitable implications
in conspiracies and narrow escapes from execution
*Times Literary Supplement*
Combines a relaxed and unfussy style with a thorough knowledge of
the period and a sharp eye for detail. Elizabeth's life makes for a
compelling story and Starkey tells it well
*Spectator*
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