As an amateur historian of Anglo-Saxon england, one who favors Wessex, the Cornwell novel sounds interesting, and I will probably pick it up.
Heh, even the qualified histrorians would have to support Wessex - but then that's my birthplace....
My eldest son came in minus half a front tooth the other day having "fallen out of a tree". An ear to the ground revealed that a certain over-enthusiastic knight bested him with a trusty wooden broadsword!
How little times change sometimes
Have recently been assigned to doghouse for filling his head with nonsense
Solution appears to be more intensive dice-work to focus his energy. Result!