Linda Medley took the iconic fairytales of your childhood – Sleeping Beauty, Jack And The Beanstalk, and so on – and adapted them to comics with a contemporary sensibility. Two rival dukes and their soldiers have come for the triplets - because whoever is the eldest is the heir to the throne.

The Keep is her 2006 novel about two cousins who undertake a business venture together, renovating an old Eastern European castle as an alternative resort for wealthy hipsters. Built, rebuilt and expanded many times, castles often don’t just tell us about one period in history, but about many different times. In this book, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the art of building as a universal phenomenon.Aimed at pacifying some of her more inaccessible regions and containing the Jacobite threat, General. Under constant guard to prevent her escape, Inge confronts the ignoble underbelly of the royal court: a despotic king, a clueless princess, a proud warrior, and a dangerous intrigue. From Europe to Haiti, from India to Japan, Castles of the World explores forts, strongholds, towers and citadels from the ancient world up to the 20th century. The sheer number of castles in England can be incredibly overwhelming, and even if you are a dedicated historian, it can be easy to forget which is which.

I’ve spent some time in the north of Scotland and became intrigued by the remains of Pictish forts on hilltops and by the sea. Inspired by a brief conversation with a schoolboy during an author visit, the story follows an eldest sister who, tradition dictates, must live a dull and dreary life. It's 1943, and World War II has gripped the nation, including the Stilwell family in Jacksonville, Alabama. But how much do we really know about them, how they evolved through history, what their features were designed for and what life was like inside them?She is a former chair of the Scottish Castles Association and is Chair of the Galloway group of the National Trust for Scotland as well as a board member of Historic Environment Scotland, and is the author of Scotland’s Castles: Rescued, Rebuilt and Reoccupied (2014). While many bear the scars of centuries of warfare, others continue to enjoy a far more comfortable existence. But I Capture The Castle is actually a classic, first published in 1934, and one of the best young adult books with castles to this day. You will learn a lot of history and insight into life in the medieval period and what each castle is known for including connections with royalty as well as ordinary folk going about their lives, its purpose, construction and surroundings.

The book was beautifully illustrated throughout, and looks in detail at several of Wales's castles, providing details of construction and history in each case. Rooted in folklore, medieval ideals of chivalry, and the last gallant strugglesof the British against the Saxon invaders, the legends of King Arthur have been told in song and story since the middle ages.Two renowned historians, Joseph and Frances Gies, describe in great detail every aspect of daily life in a medieval English castle, over the course of a year and through all seasons of the harvest. His origins and early career at the heart of Europe, and his subsequent masterminding of Edward I of England’s castle-building programmes in Wales and Scotland, bestow upon him an international status afforded to few other master builders retained by the English crown.