13thcenturyhistory

                    David Pilling                        It was a pleasure to interview author David Pilling via email last month. His novellas and novels take in many different historical eras. David has also written some fantasy novels and historical works. David's medieval fiction has an emphasis on conflict, breakdown of order, realistic to the point of being brutal, and displays a great knowledge of the era, along with  the history of different regions of England, along with Wales , Scotland, and parts of France. This interview focuses more on David's writing that relates to the 13th and 14th centuries, rather than attempts to be some sort of overview of his work. Predictable question : How important is your connection with Wales in writing Medieval fiction? Am particularly thinking of the 'Lions of Gwynedd' series?  I was born in England but raised on...