Bernard Cornwell
Azincourt

Agincourt is one of the epic battles of history. It was fought between two badly matched armies that met in atrocious conditions on St Crispin's Day 1415. lt has always been held to be the triumph of the longbow against the armoured knight, the common man against the feudal aristocrats. But these are myths. Bernard Cornwell depicts the reality behind these myths, culminating in the battle seen from several points of view on both sides.

Charlie Connelly
And Did Those Feet

As a lover of both history and the countryside, urbanite couch-potato Charlie Connelly decides to rectify this and sets out on foot along some famous routes, journeying alongside Boudica's chariot in Norfolk, reliving Bonnie Prince Charlie's flight to Skye, and taking the same tragic route as the starving famine walkers of Connemara. It's a tale that features broken toes, dead poets, a couple of ghosts, and rain. Lots and lots of rain.

On the coast of southern Spain, an English father sits waiting for his son. It is many years since Benedict, then still a child, set out with the famous scholar Antioch on a mission to find and collect mysterious beasts of the East. In all those years there has been no word. But the boy's father is not the only person asking questions on the harbourside that summer....