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Dan Jones is a bestselling historian, TV presenter and award-winning journalist. His non-fiction books, which have sold more than a million copies worldwide, include the Sunday Times bestsellers THE PLANTAGENETS, THE TEMPLARS, POWERS AND THRONES and HENRY V. His fiction includes the acclaimed Essex Dogs trilogy, set during the Hundred Years War, concluding with LION HEARTS. Dan has written and presented numerous TV series including Secrets of Great British Castles, Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets and London: 2000 Years of History. He writes and hosts the Sony Music podcast This is History. For a decade Dan was a weekly columnist for the London Evening Standard; he has also contributed to dozens of newspapers and magazines worldwide, including the New York Times, Sunday Times, Telegraph and Spectator. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Trustee of Historic Royal Palaces.
Wildly gripping, swashbuckling, battle-scarred and blood-spattered, in equal parts ferocious, dynamic and political, intimate and humane, the best biography yet of England's greatest king. * Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity * The king of exciting narrative history triumphs again. A masterclass in making the medieval addictively readable. * Lucy Worsley * Yet another Dan Jones book that I wish I had written. One of England’s greatest medieval kings gets the biography he deserves from one of our greatest medieval historians. * Dan Snow * With his customary combination of profound scholarship and fine narrative verve, Dan Jones brings Henry V to life better than anyone since Shakespeare himself. Here is a much more believable king – both for good and ill – than the Bard’s rendition, one rooted in contemporary sources shrewdly analysed. Truly, a Henry for our times. * Andrew Roberts * Shining fresh light on England’s transformational warrior king, this thrilling new biography of Henry V reads like an absolute blockbuster. * LoveReading * Praise for Dan Jones: A terrifically colourful and compelling narrative history... bustling and sizzling with life on every page * Sunday Times * A badass history writer... to put it mildly * Duff McKagan * A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist * Observer * Jones’s prose hums with energy throughout, and his ability to marry realm-scale intrigue with family drama marks this out as narrative history at its best. * The Telegraph * Splendidly readable... full of diverting incident and considered judgment... Jones is one of our liveliest historians * The Observer *
