A visceral, earthy writer

Vigorous, precise, enchanting ... the most ordinary and the most extraordinary writer you will ever meet

She writes in an engaging way and adopts an even-handed approach

Alison Weir is one of our best popular historians and one, moreover, with an impressive scholarly pedigree in Tudor history

Weir provides immense satisfaction. She writes in a pacy, vivid style, engaging the heart as well as the mind. This, her fourth book on the Tudors, affirms her pre-eminence in that field

Stylish look at two centuries of quarrels and catfights

Entertaining... An elegantly written, wise and authoritative volume

This is a timely book. It comes at a moment when British politics is haunted by the intimate enmity of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and by all its attendant sub-feuds

This is a most engaging and rewarding book...stylish, scholarly and notably perceptive

He [Campbell] captures the determining role of personality in politics and the book is strong on tactics, strategy and, most of all, skulduggery

a wonderfully, irresistibly compelling read

...cleverly conceived and stylishly executed...

...well worth staying the course... Campbell's dissection of this last union covers much familiar ground, but he shows just how much a close political relationship can hobble an administration as much as energise it

The book is a joy to read: meticulously researched, beautifully written and scrupulously fair.

stylish book

Entertaining study