'Few contemporary Britons are as intelligent as Jonathan Sumption' The Telegraph'A timely red ale...

The Hundred Years War, Volume 5

In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examin...

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in...

The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred...

'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and...

Meticulously researched, thought-provoking and entertaining, this book: - explains the extraordin...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn the past few decades, legislatures throughout the world have suffered...

Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the gree...

Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a s...

In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary...

'Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumption's opinion is always worth listen...