LibraryThing user yhoitink: Thank you everyone for the suggestions! (Dec 1, 2023, 3:56pm)

LibraryThing user yhoitink: I ended up going with Pillars of the Earth as the second choice. I went through my whole bookcase including the more obscure things like Robert van Gulik and either they were too expensive or Santee already had it. I like having one fiction and one non-fiction book. (Dec 1, 2023, 3:48pm)

LibraryThing user yhoitink: Suggestion for 19.95 AUD: Robert van Gulik, The Emperor's Pearl.

https://www.readings.com.au/product/9780226848723/9780226848723

Still too expensive to combine with the Edge of the World. (Nov 30, 2023, 6:08pm)

LibraryThing user yhoitink: All the suggestions I came up with are 22-25 AUD (14-17 USD). One book is way short of the target, but two books go slightly over. If anyone can come up with a cheaper suggestion as a second book that would be great. (Nov 30, 2023, 5:33pm)

LibraryThing user yhoitink: Other idea:

Michael Pye, The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are. AUD 24.99

https://www.readings.com.au/product/9780241963838/the-edge-of-the-world--michael-pye--2015--9780241963838 (Nov 30, 2023, 5:26pm)

LibraryThing user yhoitink: @EerierIdyllMeme: That is so up his alley that he already owns it :-) (Nov 30, 2023, 5:16pm)

LibraryThing user yhoitink: Logging my thoughts, will come back to this:

Alice Roberts, The Celts. Ties in with Santee's love of early Britain. https://www.readings.com.au/product/9781784293352/9781784293352

Alison Weir, Queens of the Crusades. Ties in with Santee's interest in Middle Ages and warfare. Santee already has other books by Weir so not as surprising. https://www.readings.com.au/product/9781784701871/queens-of-the-crusades--alison-weir--2021--9781784701871

Peter Tremayne, Absolution by Murder. Santee likes medieval mysteries and the Dark Ages. This one is set in Dark Age Ireland. https://www.readings.com.au/product/9780747246022/9780747246022

Not going to do the Doomsday book since that has time travel in it and many history lovers (including myself) do not like that in a book. (Nov 30, 2023, 3:46pm)

LibraryThing user yhoitink: Bernard Cornwell was the first I thought of too, but he(?) already has those. The overlap between this Santee's book collection and my own is insane. Every book I think of, he already has.

I will check out Doomsday Book, thanks for the suggestion. (Nov 30, 2023, 3:29pm)