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'"A Gambling Man" is a glorious romp of a book, filled with glittering anecdotes about Britain at its most glamorous and easy-going best ... A double biography of both a man and his age which gleams with a rare kind of intimacy. Here is popular history at its compelling best.' --***** Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday
'This is a terrific book, sparklingly written. Even the most ingrained republican ought to be enthralled.' --Salley Vickers, Independent
'This is panoramic history of a high order ... To understand how Charles learnt the difficult art of kingship, read this book.' --Graham Parry, Guardian --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
'This is a terrific book, sparklingly written. Even the most ingrained republican ought to be enthralled.' --Salley Vickers, Independent
'This is panoramic history of a high order ... To understand how Charles learnt the difficult art of kingship, read this book.' --Graham Parry, Guardian --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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From acclaimed biographer Jenny Uglow, a portrait of Charles II and the first decade of the Restoration: a time of glamour and gossip, charade and risk.
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
An excellent book. Thoroughly researched and written in a manner that brings the characters to life. It gives a whole new insight in King Charles as not just a womaniser but as someone who held the different factions, both at court and in the country,at bay. He struggled to achieve harmony amongst the religious groups. Jenny Uglow makes it all come to life; a real page turner for the history buff and others. Bill Duff
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is one of the most readable credible history books I have ever read, and having studied history at university, I have read quite a few. My knowledge about this particular period of British history was not particularly strong, but by the end of this book I really felt I had a good understanding of what the 1660s were like in Britain. Perhaps a little more information on the lives of ordinary people would have been nice, but to be fair that was not the purpose of this book. This book is a fantastic story of Kingship and the Royal court, and the remarkable women who were such a feature of Charles II's court. The 1660s were clearly an incredible time in Britain's history, well worthy of having an entire book devoted to the decade, and Jenny Uglow transports you to Charles' court so vividly that you feel almost as if you were. If only.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a readable, informative and enjoyable survey of a fascinating man and period in British history. Jenny Uglow is brilliant at making history interesting. The book covers just ten years from the Restoration in 1660 to 1670, when Charles was establishing himself in a changing world, and the book covers not just govenrment and politics but developments in science, society, morals and more.
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A 'Rambling' Man
In spite of being really interested in the period of the Restoration, I found that the trouble with this book is that it is written like a PhD thesis. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Miss Mapp
A gamble that paid off
Charles II is, in many ways, both too easy and too difficult a subject for a biography. He is one of those great defining characters of the British monarchy - like Henry VIII,... Read more
Published 12 months ago by B. Bennetts
Brilliant account of a complex monarch
I have read other books by Jenny Uglow and find her one of the best authors of popular historical analysis that there is. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mike Davey
Remind you of anyone?
Given the curious similarities of their family backgrounds, you'd think that Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I and Charles II would turn out similar characters. Read more
Published 16 months ago by James-philip Harries
Impressive Detail but not incisive
Uglow has obviously done alot of research and background reading but this portrait of Charles II was frustratingly lacking in a cohesive thread and fell short of a real... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Kiwifunlad
Brilliant year by year account
A Gambling Man is a very readable account of the happenings around Charles II during the key decade of his reign from 1660 to 1670. Read more
Published 19 months ago by J. Holden
A terrific book about a fascinating man
It seems I am very taken up by the Stuart period in English history these days. It all started when I read Diane Purkiss' The English Civil War: A People's History, followed by... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Didier
Excellent and readable - more like a novel than history!
I knew almost nothing about this period in history (the Restoration of Charles II), but having read Jenny Uglow's detailed account of the first ten years of Charles II's reign will... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Freelance writer/editor
History made easy
This is a book which is less prejudiced than most, and gives a fair account of the reign of King Charles II. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mrs. S. A. Charlewood
Superb
This is a wonderful book, packed with fascinating detail, about a strange period in history. The book is based upon meticulous and detailed research yet it is immensely readable. Read more
Published 23 months ago by J. Baldwin
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