Book Review: How to Build Stonehenge by Mike Pitts

Whilst this book has been out for some time, this is such a detailed and fun review from Rob that we couldn't resist. Rob Ixer writes: In the mid 2010s it seemed that there was an annual Stonehenge 'Xmas box' to read but recently it has turned quieter, for, as one author disingenuously has said "what is there new to say". Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. During this wintry writing flurry Mike Pitts was asked repeatedly why he had not penned his own Christmas carol but replied it was too soon and he needed to let the dust settle. What Mike has come up with is a measured, dispassionate, but personal account from an independent, informed, highly literate, observer-player whose reportage-style of writing, especially in the middle chapters, has successfully avoided sounding like a poor channelling of Bernard Cornwell’s novel Stonehenge, but retains rather a customary and engaging, easy reading voice.