Description
Book SynopsisNigel Jones is a former deputy editor of
History Today and
BBC History magazines who is now a full-time historian and biographer. He has written books on subjects as diverse as Rupert Brooke, Patrick Hamilton and Nazi Germany, appeared on historical documentaries on
BBC TV and radio and written and reviewed for most national newspapers. He conducted the author interviews for the
Daily Mail Book Club; and reads for serialisation for the
Daily Mail. His reviews appear frequently in the
Sunday Telegraph,
Literary Review and
History Today. He lives near Brighton in East Sussex with his partner and three children.
Tower is his most ambitious project to date.
Trade ReviewA
riveting, pacy and vivid chronicle of the Tower's turbulent past -- Alison Weir
In the hands of Nigel Jones we have an
excellent contemporary guide, providing the right mix of scholarship and storytelling, insight and narrative pace, to offer
a cracking history of the Tower. * Sunday Express *
A breezy account of the Tower's past is
full of surprises . . . Nigel Jones knows how to tell a tale with just enough detail to make the story work in any period since the 11th century . . .
thrilling history. * Sunday Telegraph *
In writing about the Tower's glory days, Nigel Jones has produced a
wonderfully rollicking history of England itself.
Told with relish, it should be a godsend to any history teacher who needs to hold the attention of his pupils. * Daily Mail *
Much as I love books on Britain's past, it is a long time since I found one which enthralled me as much as the 400 pages of
this volume.
Jones tells the colourful story in an equally lively fashion, and the two sections of black and white plates, from the Bayeux Tapestry to the Krays, are well chosen.
An epic history - and an epic read indeed. * Bookbag *
