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Hugely entertaining . . . What a joy to be able to recommend a book about misery, bloodshed and grisly superstition for being funny, compassionate and clear-eyed (Independent on Sunday)
Informative and entertaining, this is popular history at its best (Financial Times)
For imaginative and thrilling engagement with the history of those often shadowy and chaotic times, Farewell Britannia will be very hard to beat (Peter Jones Sunday Telegraph)
There is no snatch of straw so recherché, it seems, that Young cannot somehow spin gold out of it (Tom Holland Spectator)
Enjoyable and ingenious, this breathes life into the period (Scotland on Sunday)
Young reinvents with a rare combination of scholarship and imagination (Peter Parsons Literary Review)
The Celtic and Dark Age historian Simon Young has had a brilliant idea. He has decided he is a sort of Herodotus of 6th century AD Britain and Ireland . . . Extremely enjoyable and informative (Journal of Classical Teaching)
Simon Young offers nugget after nugget of fascinating detail to paint a colourful portrait of a time when native savagery was being tempered by the arrival of Christianity in a country on the cusp between druidic power and the first cold grip of Church rule . . . This bawdy, picaresque and high-spirited book . . . wears its considerable learning lightly and opens a windown on a time long neglected (Ireland on Sunday)
the greatest acheivement of this magnificent work is its success in breathing life into real people (THE HERALD)
Biographie de l'auteur
Simon Young was awarded a starred First in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from Cambridge University, as well as the Chadwick Prize for Celtic Studies. He has written for the GUARDIAN, HISTORY TODAY, the SPECTATOR and the FORTEAN TIMES. He now lives in Florence.
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