The Blood in Winter'You could hardly find a more engrossing or exciting story' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES 'Rollicking' TELEGRAPH 'Gripping' FINANCIAL TIMES 'History as it should be told' ALICE LOXTON A thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of civil war, from the acclaimed author of The Blazing World A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH AND HISTORY TODAY A nation on the cusp of war. A king ousted from his

From Dover to Glasgow

they decide to ditch school

you'll go on four mini adventures - from finding missing parts of a toy car

Sharing food is one of the purest human acts

all avenues are shut down and he is forced to abandon his home amid the untrammelled violence of Kristallnacht

Whilst he lived

in a place as far away from other people as possible

at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told

told her something important

one of the world's most innovative scientists

she starts to find her feet in Port Medden and making a new home here begins to feel right

'Three Men in Two Canoes' records their unique 12-day adventure and enduring 50-year friendship