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As Ricardians, we’re not all that impressed with the work of Dan Jones and have long considered him to be an accomplished writer of fiction. Well, now he really is a writer of fiction, and the book described below, “Essex Dogs”, looks an exciting and excellent tale of a group of archers and others in the 1346 army of King Edward III and Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince. The army invades France at the commencement of the Hundred Years War, and the group of men, the eponymous Essex Dogs, are part of it.

As  rule I wouldn’t want to read Dan Jones, because I really don’t trust his grasp on people/events around the Wars of the Roses and just after, but as this book describes itself as fiction from the outset, I’m ready to give it go. It promises to be a rattling good read. Mind you, I have to qualify this by admitting to never having read Mr Jones’s work (my adverse opinion has been based on reviews that give the flavour of his opinions), so I have no idea what his actual writing is like.

You can read all about this novel here.