ARGONAUT BOOKS

A sweeping look at an era of upheaval, panic and change. Gripping, powerful history.Hallie RubenholdA cannily timed new history... [Sceptred Isle] tells the story of the 14th-century Plantagenets with verve.The TimesA highly engaging re-evaluation of a tumultuous century.ObserverInformative, anecdotal and entertaining... So many of the events of that tumultuous century find echoes today.Financial TimesGripping... Carr is an eloquent guide to the human realities of a century that often has a hallucinatory quality: vivid, desperate and haunting in its glories and its terrors.SpectatorFast-paced ...Read More