Terry deary – Cannonball Read 17

“First I’m going to have a little drinkie, and then I’m going to execute the whole bally lot of you.”

Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England by Terry Deary

August 21, 2019 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

The third book in Deary’s Dangerous Days series takes a quick jaunt around the Elizabethan era, peeking behind the jewelled skirts of the Queen to see the smallpox scars and filth-encrusted streets underneath. Given what a huge influence Elizabeth’s family and upbringing would have had on her psychology, the first half of the book focuses on them from her birth on – her psychopath father declaring her a bastard and having her mother beheaded, her sickly brother dying soon into his rule, her bloodthirsty sister […]

Infamy, infamy! They’ve all got it infamy!

Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire by Terry Deary

July 16, 2019 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire is the second of my Terry Deary haul and proved to be far more information packed than the one I read on Ancient Egypt, covering three centuries of Roman history from the rule of Augustus to Rome’s fall. While lip service is given to some aspects of plebeian life, such as a look at some of the jobs that a Roman citizen might have, it’s very much a look at its rulers instead in a whistlestop tour through the […]

Dangerous days for them, but terrific fun for me

Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt by Terry Deary

June 14, 2019 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

I’m a huge fan of Terry Deary. For those of you not in the know, he’s the creator of the superlative Horrible Histories – aimed at kids (but adults find a lot to love too) and concentrating on the gross, gory and gossipy bits – and now the Dangerous Days series for the slightly more grown up. Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt delivers exactly what it promises on the cover – pyramids, plagues, gods and grave-robbers – all told with its eye on keeping the […]

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