Here is medieval London, raw in tooth and claw: fascinating story woven round the characters in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you've ever wondered what kind of a world the Prioress lived in or what lurked behind the Pardoner's tale, then this is the book for you. Medieval life was often nasty, brutish and short but it wasn't short on murder, intrigue and conspiracy either. You may only want to visit it for a book's worth of time and be glad to escape to the horrors of the twentieth century.
