The Knight Bus

The Knight Bus is a mode of transport found within the Harry Potter books and films.

It appears as tripple decker , violenelty purple bus. which serves as an emergencey transport for wizards and there ilk.

The Richard Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell

The Richard Sharpe Books by Bernard Cornwell are a fine piece of popular historical fiction which chroncile both the life of Richard Sharpe and the histiory of huis commander Sir Arthur Wellesley later known as the Duke of Wellington.

They cover Wellesley’s India camapigns, the Battle of Trafalgar, the Penisular War in Portugal and Spain and finally the battle of Waterloo.

As well as being a series of books they were turned into a very well recieved series of TV films staring Sean Bean as the lead and an impressive supporting cast including Brian Cox and Elizabeth Hurley.

The popularity of the books has done a great deal for both historic fiction writing in general and career of Bernard Cornwell who has become one of our better loved and most prolific  writers.

Game Of Thrones

Game of Thrones is a new HBO series based on the A song of Ice and Fire books by George RR Martin, which has just finished filming its pilot in Scotland, Ireland and Morocco.

Though it is currently just a  Pilto HBO has thrown money at it and has got an impressive cast list lined up including Peter Dinklage, Sean Bean, Lena Headey and Jason Momoa amongst many others.

More details of this can be found on the the Game of Thrones fan site