The British Museum: The Bayeux Tapestry: The Graphic Novel

Moustaches? Cheese? Pointy helmets? Tiny horses? Harold’s constantly changing moustache? Javi de Castro draws our attention to the curiosities of the Bayeux Tapestry through his graphic illustrations. Then again, Martin Howard’s hilarious commentary delights and informs. All of this means that The British Museum: The Bayeux Tapestry: The Graphic Novel is outstanding. What is the real story? How are the central characters related? Then again, why did Harold travel to Normandy originally? Why didn’t the English army fight with horses against the Norman invaders? What tights did the Normans choose? What was the promise Harold made to William? Could it be that oaths such as Harold’s were to be honoured, that the advance of Halley’s Comet predicted the Norman invasion? Bookwagon is agog at the storytelling dexterity and graphic expansion and variety of this brilliant graphic novel. We are delighted to recommend British Museum: The Bayeux Tapestry: The Graphic Novel.