About the Author

Norman Davies is the author of Europe: A History. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of London, Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Reviews

[Davies] invests The Isles...with energy and enthusiasm.--The New York Times
For all its length, it miraculously retains the pace and exhilaration of an iconoclastic essay.--The Economist
The book succeeds, boisterous in its sheer variety.--The Wall Street Journal
An audacious project, touching and reckless, enormously stimulating and hugely necessary.--Washington Post Book World
Brilliant...Davies's fast-paced narrative and reassessments are executed with such brio that putting the book down...is almost impossible.--The Boston Sunday Globe
Any reader eager to challenge the enduring prejudices and bigotry that have dominated the history of the Isles for so long will find his myth-busting views both engaging and enlightening.--The Christian Science Monitor
Excellently organized and...well written.--The Boston Book Review
Davies has written a wondrous, landmark chronicle of the British Isles...Bursting with fresh insights on nearly every page, this magisterial narrative, scholarly yet down-to-earth and engrossing, reveals Davies at his iconoclastic best.--Publishers Weekly (boxed review)
A key book for its time...Moved by corrective passion and insatiable curiosity...Seizes the conventional wisdom of the moment, and destroys most of its foundations.--London Review of Books