Another UK author I really like is Jack Whyte. Absolutely nothing to do with guns at all, his Camulod Chronicles have absorbed me for several years now. I've already long since read all the other Arthurian retellings beginning with Malory and I gotta say that IMO Whyte's Camulod series just blows the others away. It's as good IMO as if Patrick O'Brian or Wilbur Smith had written them. Different of course but IMO definitely in the same class of meticulous historian/splendid storyteller.
In the last 2 years I've read a 3-4 versions of the Arthurian legend including 'The Once and Future King". Whyte's is right there at the top. It all started with the Romans!
Anyone interested in the Knightly genre would do well to read Arthur Conan Doyle's "The White Company". An overlooked gem by the creator of Mr. Holmes.
