The Life of Thomas More

(by Peter Ackroyd)

Highly readable and balanced life (and death) of the contentious, hair-shirted and many faceted ‘man for all seasons’ (omnium horarum).

Beatified but no saint, an intolerant believer and a survivor who sacrificed himself on principle, he remains an enigma and a controversial one.

This book comes close to doing justice to all sides and all sides of the man and one can’t do much better than that.