Harry Sidebottom picks his top five historical novels for castaways. Alfred  Duggan, Family  Favourites (1960) As  a  boy  I  got  into  historical  fiction  through  the  novels  of  Alfred  Duggan, as  well  as  those  of  Graham  Shelby, George  Shipway, R. F. Tapsell, and  Wallace Breem. I  have  chosen  Duggan’s  Family  Favourites, not  only  because  it  is  a  […]