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David Mitchell is a BAFTA Award-winning actor, writer and comedian who has starred in many of the UK's best-loved TV shows, including Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look and Upstart Crow. He is a team captain on Would I Lie to You? (BBC One), the host of The Unbelievable Truth on Radio 4 and one of the Observer's most popular columnists. Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens is his first history book.<b>Unruly is part Horrible Histories part jolly romp guided by Alan Bennett. Perhaps this is how history should be done: not by patient scholars, but by free-swearing actor-comedians</b> <b>cramming more ideas and jokes into their pages than many professionals have committed to print in their careers.</b>
Guardian
<b>Full of jokes and canny insights, 100 per cent sparkier and more revernt than your school textbooks</b>
I
<b>An enjoyable, rollicking read, definitely not a conventional history book</b>
Sunday Times
<b>I don’t think anyone other than David Mitchell could have written this book. It’s clever, funny and makes you think quite differently about history we thought we knew</b>
DAN SNOW, HISTORIAN AND BROADCASTER
<b>By turns fascinating and funny - there is a jewel of an insight or a refreshing blast of clarifying wit on every page. David brings a delightfully contrary and hilariously cantankerous eye to the history of the English Monarchy. Informative, illuminating and very very funny</b>
JESSE ARMSTRONG, CREATOR OF SUCCESSION AND PEEP SHOW
<b>Mitchell clearly knows his history, with a book that owes as much to Monty Python as it does to Simon Schama</b>
Andrew Marr
<b>A Peep Show history of England</b>
Sunday Times
<b>Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp</b>. Mitchell - <b>a funny man and a skilled historian </b>- tells stories that are interesting and fun. His rants alone are worth the price of the book. And amid all the jokes and delightful nonsense, Mitchell sneaks in a serious message about English identity. <b>Here is <i>Horrible Histories </i>for grownups </b>- stripped of their finery, devoid of reverence, <i>UNRULY's</i> monarchs emerge as mortals with ordinary flaws.<b> I learnt a lot and laughed a lot, and people who have never before picked up a history book will read and enjoy this one. That's an accomplishment</b>
Gerard DeGroot, The Times
<b>Chatty, irreverent and liberally sprinkled with gags and opinions. Horrible Histories with added swearing. </b>
Guardian
<b>I can’t recommend this book enough. <i>Very</i> funny and interesting, it is above all a proper work of history</b>
Charlie Higson