SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL,
SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'A gripping,
complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative command ...
With insight and skill, Penn cuts through the thickets of history
to find the heart of these heartless decades' Hilary Mantel The
gripping new history by the author of the acclaimed bestseller
Winter King It is 1461 and England is crippled by civil war. One
freezing morning, a teenage boy wins a battle in the Welsh marches,
and claims the crown. He is Edward IV, first king of the usurping
house of York... Thomas Penn's brilliant new telling of the wars of
the roses takes us inside a conflict that fractured the nation for
more than three decades. During this time, the house of York came
to dominate England. At its heart were three charismatic brothers -
Edward, George and Richard - who became the figureheads of a
spectacular ruling dynasty. Together, they looked invincible.. But
with Edward's ascendancy the brothers began to turn on one another,
unleashing a catastrophic chain of rebellion, vendetta, fratricide,
usurpation and regicide. The brutal end came at Bosworth Field in
1485, with the death of the youngest, then Richard III, at the
hands of a new usurper, Henry Tudor. The story of a warring family
unable to sustain its influence and power, The Brothers York brings
to life a dynasty that could have been as magnificent as the
Tudors. Its tragedy was that, in the space of one generation, it
destroyed itself. 'The Brothers York is savage, exciting,
blisteringly good.' - Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors 'An
epic orgy of colour and character.' - Leanda de Lisle, The Times
'Superb ... The tragedy and brutality of the Wars of the Roses
jumps out from every page of Penn's book.' - Kate Maltby, Financial
Times 'Thrilling, pacy ... Brings a novelist's verve to his telling
of events.' - John Gallagher, The Guardian
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