What prompted Geoffrey Chaucer to write The Canterbury Tales? And what became of him afterwards?
In a new book by an Isle of Wight author, ‘Bitching Bits of Bone’, you’ll discover all the answers as the fourteenth century unfolds before your senses in vivid and uncompromising realism.
Travel with the pilgrims and experience the delights and horrors of medieval life – from alchemists and innkeepers to gothic spires and leper houses.
You can journey with Chaucer and his company from The Tabard Inn in Southwark to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. Listen to the scandalous stories in their original forms as the debaucheries of Church and State are laid bare in gloriously irreverent detail. Discover the real people behind such familiar characters as the Pardoner, the Prioress and the Miller. And prepare for a battle of wits as the Church goes head-to-head with a woman in Rochester.
Expect many twists and turns on the perilous road to Canterbury – not to mention all you could ever want to know about medieval diseases and their truly calamitous cures! Witty and erudite, this gem of a book will serve as a perfect companion to Chaucer’s most famous of poems.
Author Bio
Norman Alexander Mounter is originally from Herne Bay in Kent. After attending the Geoffrey Chaucer 
School in Canterbury, he went on to study Medicine at the Victoria University of Manchester, qualifying as a doctor in 1995.
He moved to the Isle of Wight with his family in 2011 to take up the post of Consultant Pathologist at St Mary’s Hospital.
The book was released on 29th July and can be purchased from Amazon, Waterstones, WHSmith, Blackwells and Foyle’s. EBooks may be purchased via Amazon’s Kindle or through Smashwords.
