I was tickled and entertained by this fast-paced account of Eric Idle's life, mainly focusing on his creative projects both solo and with Monty Python, as well as some key creative friendships he cultivated over the years. Idle was very close with George Harrison, David Bowie, and Robin Williams among others and each of those friendships gets explored in its own chapter. If you are interested in the interconnected development of British and American comedy in the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties this is a very fun account, and just manages to stay on this side of annoying in regards to name dropping and the fabulous party life styles of the 1%. Idle is a very good writer, and this book is full of jokes, anecdotes, and moments of genuine reflection.

Tobias Finch's soul was bound to the Greenhollow wood 400 years ago, and since then he has lived quietly in its bounds, tending to the trees, conversing with the dryads, and chasing away or hunting the monsters who are drawn in to the ancient magic there. But he is completely unprepared when a new owner purchases the manor on the hill- a young man, Henry Silver, who loves folk tales and asks questions and most improbably flirts with Tobias every chance he can get. Tobias is not one to share his secrets, but there is something powerful and evil in the heart of the forest, and Henry Silver seems likely to stumble right into the middle of it. I listened to this as an audiobook and loved the story and the narration.

This is a middle of a series book but I enjoyed it out of sequence as a stand alone. A Scotland Yard policeman is laid up with a back injury in the hospital- while there he decides to try and solve the murder of the two Princes in the Tower. Was Richard III to blame or wasn't he?