WILLIAM I (PENGUIN MONARCHS PB)

Duke William of Normandy - bastard, invader, usurper, tyrant, and known to history as the Conqueror. Under his reign, England experienced greater and more seismic change than at any point before or since. Marc Morris’s concise and gripping biography sifts through the sources of the time to tell how William swept aside the old Anglo-Saxon ruling elites, crushed enemies and rivals at home and abroad (including within his own family), devastated swathes of England and redrew the map to give greater power than ever to the king.