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Bloomsbury presents The Blood in Winter by Jonathan Healey, read by Mark Meadows.
'You could hardly find a more engrossing or exciting story' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Rollicking' Telegraph 'Gripping' Financial Times 'History as it should be told' Alice Loxton A thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of civil war, from the acclaimed author of The Blazing World A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH AND HISTORY TODAY
A nation on the cusp of war.
A king ousted from his capital by the people.
A society on the brink of collapse.
Why did the English Civil War break out? From Jonathan Healey comes a thrilling portrait of an English people's great political awakening, and of a nation that splintered into bloodshed at a terrifying speed.
Born in Leeds in 1982, Jonathan Healey is a historian of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He writes history from the bottom up, focusing on ordinary people their lives, loves, culture and politics. He is Associate Professor in Social History at the University of Oxford. His previous book, The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, was selected as a book of the year by the Telegraph, Economist and New Yorker. He lives in Oxford.
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Jonathan Healey's brilliant narrative history, sees a spry cast of characters navigate the uncertain lead-up to war . . . Energetic and exceptional . . . Takes us beyond the disputes in Westminster . . . A book that bursts with character, a vivid reconstruction of England on the brink . . . It's a pleasure to read Healey's stylish and fluid prose . . . A rollicking history, packed with fire and excitement
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