The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford<\/a> and lots of people said that if you want some historical context then The Daughter of Time was the most palatable way to get it.
\nSo I picked it up via the wonder that is inter-library loan. Libraries rock.
\nThis brief book was written in 1951 and, given that some of it’s attitudes towards women and anyone who isn’t English are quite appalling, I found it quite entertaining.
\nThe major thrust of the book is that common knowledge or the historical record is frequently a lot of rubbish and doesn’t exactly match what really happened, which he then applies to the story of Richard III. As a result it’s ironic that he accepts establishment interpretations of controversial events as examples of how historical events and the facts don’t always marry up.
\nIf you like a detective story, or historical sleuthing then you might love this book. Personally, as primer to the fall of the Plantagenet dynasty, I found it enlightening.<\/p>\nRating: B+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey I’ll be perfectly honest – this is not the kind of book I’d read normally. A Fifties police procedural about an upright police detective who investigates a historical mystery? Not my cup of tea! However I was reading a thread about a book I love – The Dragon Waiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,27,50,76,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-2","category-books","category-crime-fiction","category-fiction","category-library","category-rated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/span>I’ll be perfectly honest – this is not the kind of book I’d read normally. A Fifties police procedural about an upright police detective who investigates a historical mystery? Not my cup of tea!