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I have several other histories of Britain, including a couple still not yet read. So A History of Britain - Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603 by Simon Schama wouldn't normally really have caught my eye, even though it's on sale for £0.99. However, I occasionally get amused by the odd genres that Amazon books get put in, and right now, this one apparently is the #1 best-seller in "Religious History of Judaism". And on a serious note, the author seems legit, and the subject is interesting, and the ratings are pretty good, so here's the info...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0069SP9JO
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/a-h...itain-volume-1

Spoiler:

Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties.

What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it?

Schama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives: an Irish monk waiting for the plague to kill him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth I.

The first in a series, this volume paints a rich and vivid portrait of the life of the British people and their nation.

And now I'll have to put the author on my eReaderIQ list for the other two volumes...