Verneys
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
In this extraordinary saga, Adrian Tinniswood draws on tens of thousands of letters, which survived by chance in an attic, to reveal the remarkable world of the Verneys, a family of Buckinghamshire gentry in the seventeenth century.
Here is Edmund Verney, Charles I''s standard bearer at Edgehill, who died still clutching the King''s standard, and his childr...
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
In this extraordinary saga, Adrian Tinniswood draws on tens of thousands of letters, which survived by chance in an attic, to reveal the remarkable world of the Verneys, a family of Buckinghamshire gentry in the seventeenth century.
Here is Edmund Verney, Charles I''s standard bearer at Edgehill, who died still clutching the King''s standard, and his childr...
