I;ve been reading Julian Fellowes' novel Belgravia, which certainly is more detailed and interesting than the miniseries. He may write good dialogue and hekn a good story, but I really haye his writing style. He's attempting a 19th century novel like Trollope, Dickens, Gaskill,or ab=nither, but he doesn't have the skill as a writer to get their tone or skill at phrasing a nice sentence. It's like reading one of those mystery series like Jane Austen and the Mystery of . . . or Death Comes to Pemberley: the characters may be Jane Austen's but nothing reads the way she writes.