The first volume in a new 6 part history of England, now in paperback takes the reader from the country's first settlement to the death of the first Tudor monarch.
With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place, Ackroyd recounts the familiar story of warring kings, civil strife and foreign wars, but also recounts the food people ate, the clothes they wore, the homes they built, even the jokes they told.
Pan Foundation, paperback/peter ackroyd
