'Lost Realms' was a popular history and concentrated on the 'failed states' of post-Roman Britain that didn't make it to the heptarchy or just disappeared from view unlike their more famous and successful neighbours like Wessex and Mercia. Very interesting on forgotten corners of these islands, like the kingdom of Sussex and the Picts in NE Scotland. 'Alperton Angels' was released on Thursday, and having enjoyed 'The Appeal' so much I was really looking forward to it. I read it yesterday, starting in Gail's at about 1pm while William was at a birthday party in the Woking Superbowl and continuing when I got home, neglecting familial duties. Like 'The Appeal' the story plays out in a series of emails and WhatsApp messages that aren't always entirely reliable. It kept me gripped and at the end I was swept away with it all. It's only later when I stop to think about it that I realise how much of it was hocum, but it fooled me and engrossed me while was reading it. I'm very glad it didn't turn out to have a supernatural outcome as was hinted throughout the book. The deep-state conspiracy that it ended up being is much more realistic. . .
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