The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne - then tore itself apart.
Thomas Penn's bestselling Winter King was a Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Sunday Times and BBC History, and was awarded the H. W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize. He has a PhD in late fifteenth and early sixteenth century history from Clare College, Cambridge, and writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.
A gripping, complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative
command. It's a story we think we know - but most accounts leave
the personnel as frozen as portraits in stained glass. Here, the
three York brothers spring to ferocious life, and you need strong
nerves to meet them. With insight and skill, Penn cuts through
the thickets of history to find the heart of these heartless
decades. -- Hilary Mantel
The Brothers York is not just a magisterial work of sublime
scholarship, it's a pure page-turner. I couldn't put it
down. The wonderful thing about Thomas Penn is that he makes
some of the most familiar stories in English history feel fresh and
exciting. -- Amanda Foreman
An immense, sinewy political thriller. Thomas Penn has the enviable
skill of presenting hard research with a light touch. The
Brothers York is savage, exciting, blisteringly good. --
Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors
An epic orgy of colour and character: there are soldiers and
townsmen, poets and pirates, battlefield massacres and hidden
murders ... One of the great strengths of Brothers York is the
attention paid to the European stage. -- Leanda de Lisle * The
Times *
A rip-roaring account ... Pacy, engrossing and evocative in
its details (of feasts and jousts as well as battles and diplomatic
skulduggery), it engages the reader's emotions as well as
intellect. -- Chris Given-Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *
Superb. The tragedy and brutality of the Wars of the Roses jumps
out from every page of Penn's book ... An impressive and
engaging read. -- Kate Maltby * Financial Times *
Thrilling, pacy ... Brings a novelist's verve to his telling of
events ... Penn's history of betrayal, backstabbing and
paranoia strikes notes that still resonate today. -- John Gallagher
* The Guardian *
Fresh and lively narrative swagger ... Peppered with
delightful, telling anecdotes and details. Some are comical and
others grisly, but all breathe life into their subject ... Perhaps
the greatest strength of Penn's entertaining book is his
understanding of the warping effects of European affairs on English
domestic stability. -- Dan Jones * The Sunday Times *
Epic, racy, breaks new ground ... Penn combines a keen sense of
time, place, circumstance and anecdote with a firm grasp of human
psychology, of the macabre, the comic and the tragic, and - perhaps
as important as any of these - an instinct for the rhythm of a
sentence. -- John Guy * London Review of Books *
An exceptionally detailed and absorbing narrative history with a
gallantly sustained human touch ... Penn's Yorkist England is
an excellent place to take an exciting, and instructive, holiday
from 2019. -- Minoo Dinshaw * The Telegraph *
Gripping, richly contextualised and meticulously researched ... a
vital corrective to the ongoing, polarising battle over Richard
III's legacy. -- Marcus Nevitt * The Spectator *
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