Dr Jonathan Healey

'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' THE TIMES 'A brilliant, bloody account of England's most dramatic century . . . Thrilling' TELEGRAPH ‘The most entertaining general history of seventeenth-century England I have read’ TOM HOLLAND The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman,...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH AND HISTORY TODAYA nation on the cusp of war. A king ousted from his capital by the people. A society on the brink of collapse. From Jonathan Healey comes a thrilling history about the months that sent England into civil war‘An old-fashioned Westminster thriller . . . You could hardly...