Reading a book

[James Curry]

I am an avid reader, and reading a book at the moment.
Author is Peter May and the book is The Chess Men. There are 3 books in by him about Isle of Lewis & Harris
He seems to use a bit of historical fact and fiction in his books
Came across a chapter in the Chess Men in which he mentions a naval yacht the IoIaire which was wrecked on 1 January 1919.
To be honest I have never heard about this so I thought it was just a part of the story.
Did a bit of google research/Wiki, and all true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMY_Iolaire

I can certainly see were Peter May got the history from for this book. Apparently it is not plagiarism, but a legal loop hole called to Paraphrase.
I have read all the books in his Lewis trilogy and on reflection he has been doing it in all these books.
Enjoyable reading but !!!! is it fair?

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[happy daze john in oz]

For factual history there is none finer than Wilbur Smith.
His research is amazing and the stories written around facts of the times.
All well worth a read, have read most of the twice.

[James Curry]

I have read all his books and enjoyed them all.

[John Gill]

Wilbur Smith wrote about S Africa quite a lot.