David Horspool, Telegraph
“Jones’s book is, above all, a great story, filled with fighting, personality clashes, betrayal and bouts of the famous Plantagenet rage…
…The Plantagenets succeeds in bringing an extraordinary family arrestingly to life.”

Kwasi Kwarteng, Evening Standard
"Dan Jones’s excellent book is no mere catalogue of institution-building. Its strength comes from his energy and his utter disregard for some of the more “trendy” developments of modern history writing. In this colourful and imaginative work there are no references to swineherds or other members of a long forgotten proletariat. The Plantagenets is about a family with diverse, often quite bizarre members. It is unapologetically about powerful people, their foibles, their passions and their weaknesses…
…The Plantagenets is a wonderful gallop through English history in the traditional way. Powerful personalities, vivid descriptions of battles and tournaments, ladies in fine velvet and knights in shining armour crowd the pages of this highly engaging narrative."

Ben Wilson, New Statesman
“This is an exciting period and Jones describes it with verve. He has a keen appreciation of how power was seized and wielded by medieval monarchs, and the way they manipulated history, religion and symbolism in the service of kingship. It makes for a long book, but I zipped through it. Medieval history is enjoying its time in the sun again thanks to some excellent writers. Heaven be praised for that.“
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Sean McGlynn, The Specatator
“Death by buggery. Death by castration. Even death by being scared to death. Or so we are led to believe for the Plantagenets’ world…
…As he states in his preface, this is ‘a book written to entertain’; he succeeds admirably. It is traditional narrative history at its best, supported by some telling anecdotes and written with style and flow. Whatever the fate of the reader, being bored to death by The Plantagenets is not one of them.”
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