Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Harriet Harvey Wood, The Battle of Hastings: The Fall of Anglo-Saxon England, Jo Nesbo, The Bat

Short, accessible and a good read. How nice to read a book by someone who in the introduction declares  she would unashamedly have been on the side of the Saxons at Hastings! How much use a female academic would have been in the shield wall is moot, of course. 

'The Bat' is the first Harry Hole book, he's only 32, bless him! Still a raging alcoholic picking fights though. Set in Australia, where Wallander also visited. Helen and I went up to Nordicana a few weeks ago, a festival of all things Scandinavian. We got far too excited at seeing bit-part actors from Danish political dramas in the flesh. we even attended a cinnamon bun bake-off while we were there. .  

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