A dazzling one-volume history of Britain, which is both narrative and anecdotal.
Rebecca Fraser has worked as a researcher, publisher's editor and journalist, and has written for many publications including Tatler, Vogue, The Times and the Spectator. She has also illustrated two children's books, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and Robin Hood. She is married and has three daughters. Her first book, a biography of Charlotte Bronte, was very well received, and she has recently become President of the Bronte Society.
No family in the English-speaking world should be without this
stupendous work
*Andrew Roberts*
At a time when too little history is taught in schools and dubious
history presented on TV, Rebecca Fraser has blown a tremendous
blast of traditional British history... All will learn from it
*Paul Johnson*
A reference book that will see every history student through school
and university
*New Statesman*
An elegantly written, impressively well-informed single-volume
history of how England was governed during the past 2000 years. It
should be prescribed reading for all politicians
*Sunday Telegraph*
Fraser has put grown-up history back on the national agenda
*Sunday Times*
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