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Simon Jenkins is the author of the bestselling A Short History of England, also published by Profile, A Short History of Europe and many other bestsellers. Until 2014, he was chairman of the National Trust. A former editor of The Times and Evening Standard, he is a columnist for the Guardian.Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight
- Gerard DeGroot, Times
Jenkins has a journalist's ear for the outrageous
- John Carey, Sunday Times
There's much here to interest and stimulate
- Ewen A Cameron, Literary Review
Beautifully written with a firm hand on his facts ... startlingly good
- Sandra Callard, On Magazine
An intelligent and provocative polemic
- Andrew Lynch, Business Post
A compelling, often unsettling argument ... smiting at the roots of cherished myths and subverting notions of patriotic identity. Jenkins gives his version of the past 1,500 years or so with clarity and erudition
- Simon Griffith, Mail on Sunday
Hugely important to the history of the British Isles yet commonly misunderstood and neglected by contemporary audiences, the story of the Celts is finally told in a coherent and engaging fashion by the bestselling author of A Short History of England
Waterstones Best Books of 2022: History
Praise for A Short History of England:
'A lucid and handsomely illustrated narrative
Times
Jenkins is one of the liveliest commentators at work in Britain, always worth reading and pleasingly contrarian
- Jeremy Paxman, Guardian
This is traditional, kings-and-things, great-men history with all its dates and famous quotations in place ... Jenkins has a newspaper columnist's aphoristic verve
Spectator
A characteristically bold, wry, fluent, combative gallop through English history
- Max Hastings,
Full of good writing and lively anecdotes ... Food for thought
New Statesman
Immediately accessible
Prospect
Where Jenkins excels is in his very journalistic approach ... The historical events are joined up, and work as narrative
Time Out