It was my birthday recently, so I have sitting on my table a very satisfying pile of great chunky historical hardbacks (and a couple of slim paperbacks to complement them) which are a pretty good cross-section both of the kind of history I like to read and the kind of history which flows down into my subconscious to become fantasy through the alchemy of imagination.
Arcadia, Adam Nicolson – an beautifully woven account of an aristocratic family and their tenants in the century or so before the...
Published on June 12, 2012 16:19