The White Company

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's household-word fame today, of course, is as the creator of iconic fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. His science fiction novels and stories were also popular in his day, and remain influential in that genre. But he was personally proudest of his achievements as a historica......more

A delightful and strange adventure story in the vein of The Three Musketeers or The Scarlet Pimpernel, but also an early foreshadow of the Mannerpunk genre which grew out of Peake's Gormenghast books. The well-researched text creates a believable world which is undoubtedly (and delightfully) removed......more

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is without doubt one of the masters of the crime fiction & detective novels genre. Doyle’s great detective ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and his stories redefined the entire genre of crime writing. But Doyle was also a prolific writer in other areas like science fiction, romantic adventur......more

On my geek blog, called the Mustache and the Beard, my best friend of 37 years and I, made lists of the top 50 novels a bibliophile should read before dying. We only had 8 books in common. One of the books that I had never heard of was The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Little-by-little, I......more

_The White Company_ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is equal parts boy’s own adventure and historical fiction of the Hundred Years’ War. It reminded me very much of the spirit of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, though it’s been so long since I read the latter story I wouldn’t want to draw too many specific co......more