I wasn’t sure of this at first and generally found the historical extracts quite a slog. In contrast the ghostly utterances were usually brief, if frequent, and the spacing generous and once I was in the zone, I quite enjoyed it.
That said, the blurbs are definitely from literary folk…..
Author page: Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
Four stories – three of them quite long, the last, shorter one, really sweet – featuring supporting characters from Falco and Albia’s Rome.
Author page: Voices of Rome – Lindsey Davis
Novel No 2 in the Jackdaw series: crime, treason and general not-good-do-ery in Elizabethan England.
When Robert Cecil asks a favour of Dr Nicholas Shelby – to check in on a dubious Doctor brought over from Switzerland to tend to the son of a noble friend afflicted with that we know as epilepsy – and Bianca’s cousin Bruno arrives in the Port of London with a cargo of rice and a shipload of Italian sailors, the residents of The Jackdaw Tavern become embroiled in a Catholic plot. Dangerous in Elizabethan England…..
Mainly listened, on audiobook from the library.
Author page: The Serpent’s Mark – S. W. Perry
Backtracking to listen to the first of S. W. Perry’s Jackdaw series.
I now have a better understanding of the start of Nicholas Shelby and Bianca Merton’s stories. … and have volume 2 from the library to plug the gap between novels 1 and 3.
That said, Kris Dyer’s reading is excellent, so it’s tempting to listen to The Heretic’s Mark rather than to read it….
Author page: The Angel’s Mark – S. W. Perry (read by Kris Dyer)
A long standing recommendation from JS, this is book No 3 in the Jackdaw series – the first two weren’t on the shelves of Belmont Library when I picked up this one. And it has proved to be a good recommendation.
Enjoyable 16th century crime novel with a diverse cast of characters and primarily set in Elizabethan London, although this one takes Nicholas Shelby – one of the main characters – off to Morocco, home to the Barbary Corsairs and slave markets.
Author page: The Saracen’s Mark – S. W. Perry