Full name: A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration

Author: Jenny Uglow Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780374281373 0374281378

A Gambling Man is a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature through the lens of these ten vital years - and a portrait of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world, in which the risks the king took forged the fate of the nation, on the brink of the modern world. Similar books: King Charles II by Antonia Fraser Nell Gwyn by Charles Beauclerk The Verneys by Adrian Tinniswood God's Englishman by Christopher Hill A Great and Terrible King by Marc Morris Ungrateful Daughters by Maureen Waller Mary Tudor by H. F. M. Prescott Arbella by Sarah Gristwood Queen Emma and the Vikings by Harriet O'Brien Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir The Mistresses of Cliveden by Natalie Livingstone William the Conqueror by David C. Douglas Royal Panoply by Carolly Erickson Inheritance by Robert Sackville-West King John by Marc Morris The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Mobituaries by Mo Rocca The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir