Alexander Rose has a PhD from Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has written for the Telegraph and the Spectator, and now works for Conrad Black's Canadian newspaper, the National Post. This is his first book.
First reviews are in from the national press: 'Rose's book skilfully entwines the story of this family with the wider history of medieval England and Scotland ... a gripping panorama of medieval history.' Nick Rennison, THE SUNDAYTIMES 'Anyone who has recently read and thrilled to Richard Fletcher's 'Bloodfeud', a true historical tale of murder and revenge in 11th century Yorkshire, will eat up Alexander Rose's dynastic story of the Percy family ... It's stirring stuff, often swashbuckling in Rose's narrative effects, and none the worse for that in a popular history of a neglected and underrated area of British hisory. If nothing else, this book may send readers rushing back to re-read Sir Walter Scott's Border Ballads.' THE TIMES 'For the most comprehensiveaccount of the rise of the Percys, this is the book. KINGS IN THE NORTH almost doubles as a single-volume History of Medieval England.' John Adamson, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Rose's focus on the North, that turbulent region betweent he Humber and the Scottish Border, is to be welcomed ... The book's originality lies in the valuable regional perspective and the auhor's skill in setting thebiography of a family against five centuries of British history.' THE HERALD
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