Description: Graham Robb takes readers on a time-traveling adventure around the "spindly, sea-wracked island" he calls home.
Brief description: Graham Robb is the author of several award-winning books on literature and history. His book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians, the city of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.
Review Quotes: A dazzling and dizzyingly wonderful roam through Britain's past. This is history writing as you've never read it before.--Jack Cornish, author of The Lost Paths