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STONEHENGE 2000 BC by Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins, pounds 16.99)
The TV success of Richard Sharpe, hero of Cornwell's Napoleonic War series, has brought the author a well-deserved reputation as the king of the cannonballs and crinolines genre, and proves he has few equals in portraying men in battle. But his latest epic novel travels much further back in time, focusing on the building of Stonehenge. Using scant archeological evidence (and his own fertile imagination) Cornwell presents his own fictional explanation of how and why this great Bronze Age monument was raised. As usual there's action aplenty, but the book's hero, Saban, is a bit...