Book Update

I started reading Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd. It's a grand, sweeping, epic novel about the history of Salisbury and environs, and in the process also ends up being a history of Britain. Rutherfurd has been called a Michener disciple, but he seems more like a Michener clone, which is a very good thing as far as I'm concerned. The first chapter has my attention already. It opens up around 7500 BC and talks about Upper Paleolithic hunters meeting up with Mesolithic hunters, and what the differences between the two are. Fun fact: What was the population of the entire island of Britain 9,500 years ago? Answer: About 5,000.