What you reading at the mo' ?

I like anything that's history based. At the moment I'm reading the classic Westward Ho! All 1800 pages of it!

 

My mum and Dads friends that they have known since they were in their teens, are obssesed with lord of the rings. Their 3 children are all named after towns in lord of the rings. One of them was called Rowan after the place where the kingdom of men live lol and they read it together all the time its creepy!!!

 

OH tried to get him to do a radio interview once. His response was too rude to repeat on GC.

 

Really??
He'd fit right in!

 

Yup, love historical novels but preferably well-researched. My knowledge of the Wars of the Roses is gleaned almost entirely from the most learned Phillipa Gregory, the civil war between Stephen and Matilda gets done by Ellis Peters in the Brother Cadfael novels (more bliss discovering them) Edwards I, II and III are covered by Susan Howatch along with John of Gaunt and Henry II and IV.

For medieval social history I turn to Ken Follet and his ecclesiastic architectural bodice rippers, The Pillars of the Earth and World without End.