Unruly

A fun light stroll through the early rulers of England, as a non-Brit there was even more for me to learn here. Like I never knew that these so called “English” are really just a bunch of French Vikings.

He manages to straddle the line between making fun of these puffed up larger than life characters while still giving credit where it's due. By placing them in the context of their time he actually manages to humanise these quasi-mythological royals, something that is easy to forget when someone is such a large part of history. His treatment of Edward III stands out to me as the best example of this.

I had fun, and I could spend all day reading David Mitchell's asides.