Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery
by Terry Jones, Robert Yeager, Alan Fletcher, Juliette Dor, Terry Dolan

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Book Review: disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars

However, this book is stylistically appalling. In his desire to make everything 'accessible', Jones takes every opportunity possible to supplement his otherwise fair-to-good argument with patronising and very irritating asides. Take this for instance:

'The taverns and corner shops of old England must have been buzzing - not with the lates news of how England was doing in the World Cup or of celebrity divorces - but with the latest sermon preached in the town or the latest religious scandal. / These were extraordinary times to be living in. And in 1381 it was all to boil over. The times were to get even more exciting and extraordinary... perhaps too exciting and too extraordinary.'

This is not an isolated example. The book is littered with them. A real turn-off. And a real pity, as this is a book which should be written. If only his editor had had the courage to scrap all the gibberish.

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