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Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
Book Type: Hardcover
Published: 01 October 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
RRP:£18.99
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Review:
is Bernard Cornwell's latest novel, but readers could be forgiven for thinking that they have seen it all before. Poor English peasant hero with uncanny knack for archery? Check. Traumatic and fatal incident early in the narrative which sends him on a quest for redemption? Check. Epic battle between medieval England and France? Um...
I'm a huge fan of Cornwell's novels, as well as those of Conn Iggulden and (to a lesser extent) Simon Scarrow, but I simply wouldn't recommend Azincourt. There's nothing ostensibly WRONG with it, in that the writing is good and the plot engrossing enough, but there just isn't anything new or different about it. The characters and the story are, quite frankly, so indistinguishable from the Harlequin series that, a few weeks on, most readers would be hard-pressed to differentiate between them in their memories.
It's a shame, because Bernard Cornwell is undoubtedly the best historical novelist of his generation, and all of his previous offerings have been marvellous. Azincourt itself, if it weren't so similar to Harlequin, Vagabond and Heretic, could be considered one of them, although perhaps still a bit below-par. I simply wish he would choose a different period of history to write about, and one that he hasn't literally just covered in a far more adequate and accomplished series.
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