I tried reading a Flashman book years ago and couldn't get into it. I'll have another go. Maybe it'll take this time.

The 'Judge Dee' books, by Robert van Gulik... Mysteries set in Tang-dynasty China... possibly out-of-print [again], but in my opinion definitely worth looking for.

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Ooh. They sound interesting. Have to look out for those. Man, I love my library ...

Intrigue - you gotta url for that GMF site? I wasn't aware he had one.



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Re: historical mysteries, I've recently become aware of a series (three so far) of pseudo-historical mysteries in which William Shakespeare investigates crimes that will later influence his plays. In fact, I think I may even have seen them mentioned somewhere on these very fforums. Haven't got them/read them yet, but they sound like fun.



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I loved Brother Cadfael!! I used to live near Shrewsbury. :-)



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My mother's writing a book on Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters.



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Sarah

Really - I guess if you say so. I discovered the 'Brothers of Gwynedd" in my local library when I was about 15 and loved them. Having taken the first one home, I read it overnight and picked up the next three the following day. (Our High School shared a driveway with the village library, which was handy). I read volume 2 when I got home from school and immediately started on 3, finally going to bed about 4 in the morning. I made it through school the next day, somehow, and dashed home to read the last book.

I loved the "Brothers of Gwynedd" so much I even pursuaded my parents to go to North Wales for our next holiday, so I could see all the castles - and Portmerion.

Hadn't I mentioned it before? She's been writing it for at least the last eighteen months. She's even got some of the books that EP translated from the Czech (and is wondering why she bothered to translate them!).



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I'd be really interested in that book, Sarah. tell her to hurry up and finish it. (In the nicest possible way, of course)

I think she's already trying to hurry up and finish it! She just keeps finding new insights that she has to write about. You know how it is.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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