‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age’ ADAM ZAMOYSKI
‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE
‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD
A powerful, probing book about PTSD.
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Bestselling author Tom Bower reveals the making of a monarch – King Charles III
Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer
A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset’ Sunday Times
‘Illuminating and beautiful’ Cathy Rentzenbrink
A Radio 4 Book of the Week, June 2021
‘Highly readable … deserves to take its place among the first rank of modern royal biographies’ Daily Mail
‘The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read’ Lynn Barber, Sunday Times
A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021
‘Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny … like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy’DAVID LIPSKY
A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.