Oliver Cromwell (Penguin Monarchs)

David Horspool is the History Editor of the Times Literary Supplement , and the author of Why Alfred Burned the Cakes: A king and his eleven-hundred-year afterlife , The English Rebel: One thousand years of troublemaking from the Normans to the Nineties , and Richard III: A ruler and his reputation . He co-edited The People Speak: Voices that changed Britain with Anthony Arnove and Colin Firth.