The Blood in Winter

'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.