I like the current rash of histoical who-dunnits that have followed in the wake of Ellis peters with her Brother cadfael series.

Others worth reading would inclusde Bernard Knight with the Crowner John series, Paul Doherty with just about any of the different charecters he's spawned and those by Edward Marston.

Other good historical romps would include any of the Bernard Cornwell and Allan Mallinson books.

Seriously good factual books I've read several times would be the Arctic grail by Pierre Berton or the Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes about the History of transporting convicts, in this book I was seriously surprised to see that the percentage of those sent out for poaching was quite small, as it says in the book about the same as those transported for beastiality (aren't there meant to be lots of sheep in Australia still).

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