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 *