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Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" series might work.

I suppose it's historical fiction. Here are some to start off: The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle, if you can get it. Alfred Duggan's Knight with Armour Knight of the Temple by Stuart Dimmock The Sword and the Circle by Rosemary Sutcliff Dorothy Dunnett Bernard Knight Bernard Cornwell

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I remember "The Water Margin" - great stuff! If you can get them, Daniele Vare's books set in China in the 1920s are wonderful reading. Lafcadio Hearn wrote about Japan.

I very much doubt if there is a good single work on this topic since there are many divergent views about why wars happen. There is "An Encyclopaedia of Wars", but it is enormously expensive so you would be best to borrow it from your local library [if they will lend it].

Have you tried this for hard back copies: AbeBooks: New & Used Books, Textbooks, Rare & Out of Print Books

You'll find copies on Abebooks >> AbeBooks: Search Results - Science Fiction The Best of 2003

And Dorothy L. Sayers.

"The Pirates of the deep green sea" by Eric Linklater and "Wet Magic" by E. Nesbit are both set under water with lots of different sea creatures.

Leaving aside all the hype, "The Da Vinci Code" is a page-turner. Other authors whose work is compelling: Grisham, Patterson, Lindsay Davis, Cormac McCarthy, Kellerman

If the author makes it clear that changes to historical fact are done intentionally for the purpose of the fictional narrative, I can just about accept them. Inaccuracies in detail to me show a lack of proper research or understanding of a period - a castle in the 15th century with wisteria...

I don't remember a castle or a large swinging knife in this book:eek: Are you absolutely sure it isn't "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

Jasper Fforde Comic, allusory, plays with realities and time, very clever.

Do you mean "naturist" which is usually the term for a nudist? Or naturalist - someone interested in nature? And what are you really looking for - books about living in the wild or personal philosophies? Fact or fiction?

"The Heart of India" by Mark Tully ?

Margaret Irwin wrote a trilogy about Elizabeth.

Does it have to be contemporary? If not, "Lark Rise to Candleford" - actually three books, but really evocative.

Where to start! Cranford by Mrs Gaskell I captured the Castle by Dodie Smith

Brendan Behan Seamus Heaney Edna O'Brien William Trevor William Butler Yeats George Bernard Shaw Oscar Wilde

Are you sure this isn't Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, "The manuscript of the novel was first discovered almost 60 years after the author's death in Auschwitz in 1942. The book caused a storm when it was first published in France, in 2004. It was hailed by critics as a masterpiece and...