What I’m Reading: It’s History, Fictional & Non Fictional aka Tales of Two Alfreds

Next to speculative fiction, the literary “genre” I like best is historical, although in my case I include both fiction and non fiction under that umbrella.

So at the moment I’m reading — and enjoying — Douglas Woodruff’s The Life and Times of Alfred the Great (Weidenfled & Nicolson, 1974) which is a non-fiction account of the life and times of the Anglo-Saxon monarch. This is very much a coffee table book, so the writing is accessible and accompanied by many beautiful plates of manuscripts, c...