MORTAL MONARCHS: 1000 YEARS OF ROYAL DEATHS (PB)

A wonderful mixture of violence, infections, overindulgence and occasional regicide. Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths, from the ‘bloody’ fascinating story behind Oliver Cromwell's demise and the subsequent treatment of his corpse and whether the arrow William II caught in the chest was an accident or murder, to Henry IV's remarkable skin condition and the red-hot poker up Edward II's rear end. A rich record not just of how these monarchs died, but how we thought about and treated the human body, in life and in death.