A Gambling Man

'Terrific . . . fabulously rich and insightful.' Dominic Sandbrook 'Intense, involved, absorbing.' Frances Wilson Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity...