Piers Brendon is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographies of Churchill and Eisenhower, the best-selling Eminent Edwardians; The Windsors; The Dark Valley; the highly acclaimed The Decline and Fall of the British Empire and, most recently, Eminent Elizabethans. He also writes for television and contributes frequently to the national press. Formerly Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, he is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

"So readable that we put down the book wishing for more" Times Literary Supplement "Piers Brendon's well-researched Hawker of Morwenstow has unearthed the real man: an extraordinary mixture of genius and fatuity, of mountebank and quirky saint... Dr Brendon comes from Cornwall himself, and his book vividly recaptures the rural poverty and squalor of the mid-nineteenth century" Sunday Telegraph

Piers Brendon is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographies of Churchill and Eisenhower, the best-selling Eminent Edwardians; The Windsors; The Dark Valley; the highly acclaimed The Decline and Fall of the British Empire and, most recently, Eminent Elizabethans. He also writes for television and contributes frequently to the national press. Formerly Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, he is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

"So readable that we put down the book wishing for more" Times Literary Supplement "Piers Brendon's well-researched Hawker of Morwenstow has unearthed the real man: an extraordinary mixture of genius and fatuity, of mountebank and quirky saint... Dr Brendon comes from Cornwall himself, and his book vividly recaptures the rural poverty and squalor of the mid-nineteenth century" Sunday Telegraph

Piers Brendon is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographies of Churchill and Eisenhower, the best-selling Eminent Edwardians; The Windsors; The Dark Valley; the highly acclaimed The Decline and Fall of the British Empire and, most recently, Eminent Elizabethans. He also writes for television and contributes frequently to the national press. Formerly Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, he is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

"So readable that we put down the book wishing for more" Times Literary Supplement "Piers Brendon's well-researched Hawker of Morwenstow has unearthed the real man: an extraordinary mixture of genius and fatuity, of mountebank and quirky saint... Dr Brendon comes from Cornwall himself, and his book vividly recaptures the rural poverty and squalor of the mid-nineteenth century" Sunday Telegraph