The first biography of the evil genius and rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II.
Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time
Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveller's
Guide to Elizabethan England, as well as four critically acclaimed
medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly articles on subjects
ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998.
His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize
(2004) and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009.
He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on
the edge of Dartmoor.
Mortimer's book roars, races and sings... with a sense of passion
and drama and an unrelenting pace
*Daily Telegraph*
Ian Mortimer's exacting standards of scholarship mean that this
book will undoubtedly remain the standard authority on its
subject
*Independent on Sunday*
A compelling page-turner
*Sunday Times*
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