Stonehenge

Rosemary Hill is a writer and historian. She has written two prize-winning books, God's Architect, a life of A.W.N. Pugin and Stonehenge. She is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books, a fellow the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society of Literature and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She lives in London and is working on a history of antiquarianism in the Romantic period.

Title: Stonehenge

Author: Rosemary Hill

ISBN: 9781861978806

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Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Publication Date: 2009-06-25

Number of Pages: 224

Weight: 0.2042 kg

Her book is a treasure: stylish, thoughtful, miraculously condensed, and as full of knowledge as megalith is full of megalith * Sunday Times *
She brings genuine originality to the cultural history of Stonehenge; nobody has until now considered it as literature, poetry and art, in this comprehensive way * Times Literary Supplement *
A fascinating overview * Time Out *
This is a fascinating account of how Stonehenge has been written up over the years ... this is a thoroughly researched history that's both entertaining and authoritative -- Lesley McDowell * Independent on Sunday *
Clear, intelligent and often highly amusing, this study achieves something new in the voluminous literature on Stonehenge ... excellent. -- Christopher Hirst * Independent *
Intelligent and often witty ... refreshingly unmocking. -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times *
A thorough examination of England's most captivating World Heritage Site. -- Julian Fleming * Sunday Business Post *
Superbly researched and thoroughly entertaining account of the monument's history -- Simon Shaw * Mail on Sunday *