Pilgrims by Matthew Kneale review – a slyly comic medieval journey

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Prickings of conscience and wanderlust drive a motley group of 13th-century pilgrims along the road from England towards Rome

worldview.’ Photograph: Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy, his exuberant polyphonic novel in 21 voices. Interweaving a 19th-century British seafaring expedition in search of the garden of Eden with a vicious episode in Australian colonial history, it dramatised the clash between faith and science, empathy and self-interest.

 

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Read 'company of liars' by Karen maitland set in 1348 plague. It seemed relevant to our current state.

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