Book description
Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019
'A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to read.' Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets
In The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous struggle for supremacy between the first Plantagenet king, Henry…
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1 author picked The Restless Kings as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Restless Kings is an old book that I re-read for the course I’m teaching about the Plantagenet kings of England.
I’d forgotten what a brilliant book this is: it has all the facts but reads like a thriller novel set in the twelfth century. I so enjoyed re-acquainting myself with such exciting personalities like the feisty Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lionheart: a real man of action.
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