Simon Jenkins is the author of the bestselling England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses, the former editor of The Times and Evening Standard and a columnist for the Guardian. He is also chairman of the National Trust.
The definitive concise account of our remarkable past
Simon Jenkins is the author of the bestselling England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses, the former editor of The Times and Evening Standard and a columnist for the Guardian. He is also chairman of the National Trust.
A lucid and handsomely illustrated narrative, from the Saxon dawn
of England to the Cameron Government
*The Times*
Full of stand-out facts ... Absolutely fascinating ... I've learnt
an awful lot
*Richard Bacon, BBC Radio 2*
Let Jenkins sweep you through England's history, painting a vivid
picture of this country's green and pleasant land
*City AM*
Where Jenkins excels is in his very journalistic approach ... The
historical events are joined up, and work as narrative
*Time Out*
Immediately accessible
*Prospect*
This is traditional, kings-and-things, great-men history with all
its dates and famous quotations in place ... it's jolly good ...
Jenkins has a newspaper columnist's aphoristic verve ... judgements
are crisp
*Spectator*
Entertaining
*Sunday Times*
Full of good writing and lively anecdotes ... worth perusing for
pleasure and food for thought
*New Statesman*
A characteristically bold, wry, fluent, combative gallop through
English history
*Max Hastings*
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