I read a fair few history books and often find them to either be so dry they are difficult to access or written as if they are aimed at kids but this one is the perfect middle ground- it's still intelligent and fascinating but it's written with a sense of humour that make it far easier to read. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

The show launched at the UK Number 1 in its debut week, and has since accrued 82 million downloads and plays. In these lively, irreverent biographies you can meet all kinds of famous folk, from Einstein, the batty genius who invented e-mc2, to Joan of Arc, the teenage girl who led the French army before dying at the stake as a martyr. David, the actor, has the first four lines of Hamlet's soliloquy " To be, or not to be" tattooed around his ankle.Like some frisky, over-caffeinated lovechild of Dan Snow and Marina Hyde, he can't help but entertain you, even as he's pouring facts down your throat. Thoroughly recommend this book to anyone and especially those with a love of historical celebrities. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

During the Covid lockdown, he hosted and co-wrote two series of the BBC children's educational show HOMESCHOOL HISTORY on BBC Radio 4. A magical and unique read, it immediately caught the attention of readers and reviewers and won several major awards.The novel jumps back and forth in time to show the events in the live video recordings, leading up to the night of the murder, where the remaining eight housemates at the time had to remain in an Indian sweat box—an old-style sauna with a pitch-black interior, the intention being to prompt the housemates to have sex. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He also tries to pin down a concrete definition of celebrity as opposed to mere fame, notoriety or renown. Meet the Georgian literary forger William-Henry Ireland, who claimed to have discovered a trunkful of Shakespearean manuscripts, complete with a new play, Vortigern and Rowena.