Author:Peter J Gwyn
Proud, greedy, corrupt and driven by overwhelming personal ambition. Such is the traditional image of Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Abbot of St. Albans, Bishop if Tournai and Papal Legate. It is an image which Peter Gwyn examines, challenges and decisively overturns in this remarkable book.
From exceedingly humble beginnings Wolsey rose to a pinnacle of power unsurpassed by any other British commoner. Peter Gwyn explores every aspect of the Cardinal's career - not least his relationship with Henry VIII - and sets it firmly in a vividly recreated Tudor world. The Wolsey who emerges is a man of prodigious energy and ability, a tireless dispenser of justice, an enlightened reformer wholly dedicated to his king and country - a man who has been consistently misrepresented and maligned for four-and-a-half centuries.
A masterpiece, a tour de force...Beautifully sculpted, it sustains its momentum to the last page...A magnificent and authoritative book.
—— J. J. Scarisbrick , Sunday TelegraphLearned and controversial, it has all the elements of a detective story...His verdict is convincing...a fascinating book.
—— Lord Blake , Country LifeIt is intelligently illuminating on both Wolsey and his world, and is especially good on the Church and foreign policy...It is indispensable
—— Christopher Haigh , Times Educational SupplementA work of magisterial ambition and achievement...He has taken a great subject and transformed it.
—— Blair Worden , London Review of BooksSattin has written a brilliantly assured experiment in biography, a triumph of the historical imagination. Convincingly researched, informed by an unobtrusive first-hand knowledge of Egyptian places, compellingly skilful in the writing, the whole story is illuminated by Anthony Sattin's delicately perceptive sense of character in action.
—— Literary ReviewRemarkable
—— ScotsmanSattin's account is authoritative, thoroughly researched and pacy . . . this book is a treat.
—— Time OutElegant and absorbing, A Winter On The Nile sheds fresh light upon two titans of the age
—— Tim Butcher, author of BLOOD RIVERBeguiling and impressively researched ... A compelling snapshot of two of the most celebrated figures of the age, before their fame, and of a time when travel was leisurely and scholarly. And it sings with the romance of Egypt
—— Traveller MagazineIf this doesn't win a major book prize, I will eat my sola topi ... Beautifully counterpoints the spiritual travel experiences of the soon-to-be-famous nurse fleeing an arranged marriage, with the much more lubricious ones of the then-unpublished novelist.
—— Giles Foden , Conde Nast TravellerIn 1849, Florence Nightingale and author Gustave Flaubert visited Egypt. Anthony Sattin's book recreates the transformative steps towards fame these two took as they simultaneously travelled around Egypt
—— BBC Lonely Planet magazineA fascinating biography
—— Lesley McDowell , HeraldThis book is excellent
—— Andrew Holgate , Sunday TimesThis dramatic biography recreates her tragic life and the turbulent times in which she lived...Nemirovsky is one of those rare writers whose life is every bit as interesting as her work
—— Simon Shaw , Mail on SundayThis is a scholarly biography of a literary paragon... It is saturated with her writings, revealing her passions, hubris, moods and anxieties, as well as her thoughts of fiction, Jewishness and mothers... Russian social history, anti-Semitism and the Vichy regime's collusion with the Nazis are handled adroitly
—— Maggie Armstrong , Irish TimesAn epic novel... The suspense lasts until the final pages. There is no let-up. At the end of the book, you really feel that even though Sashenka is a fictional character, she has become one of the thousands of real people who haunt the Moscow archives that Montefiore knows so well
—— SUNDAY EXPRESS
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