Henry V’s army is magnificent but sickness and injury from a disastrous defeat at Harfleur sees it depleted, yet they persevere against the odds to Agincourt on what everyone assumes is a march to their deaths…Ĭornwell expertly expels myths surrounding the events and has a unique way of catapulting the reader right to the centre of the battle with alternating perspectives of both French and English soldiers.
Once word of his pivotal part in the Siege of Soissons gets out, he is called back to England and enrolled in the archer company of Henry V’s army. Nicholas Hook is an English archer of exceptional skill, but his headstrong behaviour has him ruled an outlaw forcing him to seek refuge amongst the English mercenaries protecting the town of Soissons from French invasion. The famous battle of Agincourt is the basis of Bernard Cornwell’s exceptional book of the same name and, as in all books like The Pillars of The Earth, it makes for a truly gripping read.
The country is on the brink of a civil war but in the midst of it all, a spectacular cathedral is under construction in the fictional town of Kingsbridge. In Ken Follett’s critically acclaimed novel, we are catapulted back into Medieval Britain somewhere between the sinking of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Beckett. It’s easy to become so immersed in books like The Pillars of the Earth that you start to believe the alternative narratives they weave of well known historical events and of the stories we thought we knew so well.
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