Kathleen
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Patricia Bracewell:
Hi Patricia, Can you recommend any books/authors that write in the same time period as you? I know of Bernard Cornwell and Susan Fraser King but would love to read more books during this time period. Thank you, Kathleen
Patricia Bracewell
Hi Kathleen. Bernard Cornwell is, in my mind, the very best novelist for this period. No one has topped Uhtred. Robert Low, too, is a wonderful writer, and his OATHSWORN Series is about Vikings. If you've watched and liked the Vikings tv show, you might like his books. Very gritty. Justin Hill's SHIELDWALL is set in Aethelred's England. Conn Iggulden has a new book out, DUNSTAN, a well-written (highly, highly fictionalized!) account of the life of the sainted archbishop who baptized Aethelred. But the world he creates is illuminating. V.M.Whitworth has written two 10th c mysteries: THE BONE THIEF, which I enjoyed, and THE TRAITOR'S PIT which I have not yet read. Dorothy Dunnett writes about Macbeth in KING HEREAFTER (warning: it's a tough read but worth the effort, although I DO NOT like her depiction of Emma.) Valerie Anand wrote GILDENFORD - about the Godwins - in 1977. I found her take on that family interesting, and far different from mine. There are other novelists writing in this period whose books I have not yet explored: Helen Hollick, of course, wrote about Emma in THE FOREVER QUEEN; James Aitcheson writes about post-1066 England. And Annie Whitehead's TO BE A QUEEN is about Aethelflaed. There! That's the best I can do. And now I have to get back to writing Emma's Book 3. Cheers!
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