Healey has done it again. The Blood in Winter is history as it should be told, where new light is cast upon one of the most dramatic years in British history. Shaped by meticulous research and a narrative worthy of any political thriller, the result is masterful

ALICE LOXTON, author of Eighteen: A History of Britain in Eighteen Young Lives

This is everything a history book should be. Healey fills his narrative with portraits of extraordinary characters, which combine to make his account of Britain's descent into Civil War a truly human one. Nothing could be more relevant to us now, in this political moment, than a history like The Blood in Winter that gives an example of how fast and almost accidentally nations can fall apart, and the individual decisions of conscience that must be made along the way'

OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite

Healey is in the vanguard of modern popular history, and The Blood in Winter charges like a squadron of cavalry through the tumultuous year that led to the civil wars, giving equal billing to the people's politics that shook the streets of London and the arguments and doubts that filled the houses of parliament

NADINE AKKERMAN, author of Invisible Agents

A superb history. Healey has the rare ability to make the seventeenth century accessible without being patronising, and to cover big and important themes while keeping the reader royally entertained

SAM FREEDMAN, author of Failed State

This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life

The Times on 'The Blazing World'

A brilliant, bloody account of England's most dramatic century . . . Thrilling

The Telegraph on 'The Blazing World'