‘A tale of two friends – and rivals – who tried to bring the English Civil War to an end … Moving as well as erudite … personality and contingency act here as the butterfly’s wings that trigger history’s earthquakes’
P EN GUIN P RES S FRIEN D S IN YOU T H
Cover: Detail from King Charles I by Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641). Oil on canvas. Burghley House Collection, Lincolnshire, UK. Photo: Bridgeman Images. Author photograph © Stuart Simpson.
‘Humane and sympathetic, refreshingly different … a story about young men, the years that formed them and the way that history, still, makes us choose sides’ ALICE HUNT, THE TIMES
‘Scintillating … cinematic … a bravura performance. He has a novelist’s eye for place and character, and his elegantly crafted prose is bright with freshly minted phrases’ J O H N A D A M S O N , L I T E R A RY R E V I E W
‘A zest for gossip; antiquarianism; a delight in networks and family trees and piquant coincidences … an informative and engaging historian’ LUCY HUGHES - HALLETT , NEW S TATESMAN I S B N 978-0-141-98651-7
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FRIENDS IN YOUTH Choosing Sides in the English Civil War
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Date: 29/10/2025 Designer: Dani Prod. Controller: Sandra Pub. Date: 29/01/2026 ISBN: 9780141986517
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