Berwick Coates

The only list that matters – Best in Show 2015!

Posted on 21/01/2016 by Speesh in Book Stuff

If you buy all these, you'll be as poor as me. But happy. Though that generally doesn't wash with the bank man. Trust me, I've tried it.

Review: The Last Viking by Berwick Coates

Posted on 24/02/2015 by Speesh in Britain/England, Fiction, Historical Fiction

The Last Viking by Berwick Coates My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the story of how you really want 1066 to finish. After this battle - stop. Harold and the English win the battle of Stamford Bridge, see off the last Viking challenge. Nothing else happens. Everyone lives happy ever after. If you’ve read anything about the 1066 … Continue reading Review: The Last Viking by Berwick Coates →

If it's 2015, it must be time for – Book of the Year 2014!

Posted on 17/01/2015 by Speesh in Book Stuff

I thought I'd actually wait until the year was over (2014, just in case you...) before putting my heads together and seeing what I'd read that was worthy of The Speesh Golden Bookmark* for best book/read I read in 2014. As usual, I don't seem to have read any of other places' 'Books of the Year.' Partly … Continue reading If it's 2015, it must be time for – Book of the Year 2014! →

Review: The Last Conquest

Posted on 21/03/2014 by Speesh in Britain/England, Fiction, Historical Fiction, The Norman Conquest

The Last Conquest by Berwick Coates My rating: 4 of 5 stars A thoroughly enjoyable, maybe slightly alternative look at the possibilities surrounding the first couple of weeks of the Norman Conquest, leading up to and including the Battle of Hastings. It is a novel, so fiction, but thanks to the fiction and non-fiction reading … Continue reading Review: The Last Conquest →