A book of the rarest quality. Everything about Sir Nigel is incredible, from prose to characterization and setting and visualization and imagery, to timing and rhythm, to the story itself. It's an epic of high adventure, violent chivalry, purely satisfying medieval aestheticism, and not once hits a

Many years ago, a dear bookish friend gave me a very beautiful old book, tied with a brown velvet ribbon as a Christmas present. The cover the book was dull orange, the Gothic letters of the title, the same brown as the ribbon. She had found it and thought it was just a neat looking old book. I happ

Разкошен рицарски роман, засягащ събития от Стогодишната война (кулминацията е битката при Поатие, 1356 г.), в който вероятно щях да се влюбя до уши като юноша, но и като дърто магаре го намерих за доволно симпатичен. Е, имаше я леката наивност и на моменти чак комично звучащата патетика, ала сър Ар

Originally published on my blog here in March 1998.

Of all Arthur Conan Doyle's works, this one has perhaps aged least well. It's set in the Middle Ages, or, rather, it's set in a world imitating that of Scott's Ivanhoe. It seems today very in-authentic, particularly in the speech and descriptions.

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A delightful tale giving the back story to "The White Company" and Sir Nigel Loring. Arthur Conan Doyle pens a historical fiction that covers the years between 1350-1357, an early period in the Hundred Years War. The page-turning, captivating narrative follows the way in which Nigel Loring went from

Chivalric deeds, bloody battles, bouts with ships, deeds of arms, chevauchées, robber barons and clever archers (Samkin Aylward!!) abound in this nice prequel to The White Company which follows the younger years of Sir Nigel, a minor noble of a house of great renown for the bravery of his knights, n