Judge an era by its murders. The Edwardian age’s most notorious crime was a conventional, even banal, domestic killing – “the story of a quiet, unassuming man who poisoned his overbearing wife so that ...

Edward German and Basil Hood’s Merrie England is the epitome of rollicking good fun – light, frivolous, old-fashioned yet timely, and packed with witty songs, charming countryfolk and aloof courtiers.

Most of Bloodfeud takes place in 10th- and 11th-century England during the hundred years just before the Norman invasion of 1066. This is hardly a period familiar to most readers, which makes Richard ...