Somewhere in France – October 15, 1915
Christmas is hectic in our household and I thought I might skip blogging for the week. Instead, I’ve decided to reproduce more my husband’s great uncle’s letters from somewhere in
December 27, 2016
Christmas is hectic in our household and I thought I might skip blogging for the week. Instead, I’ve decided to reproduce more my husband’s great uncle’s letters from somewhere in
My husband was digging through a few boxes of his family’s historical records last week and came across a series of letters written from one of Ian’s great uncles to what
Michael Ondaatje is probably best known for The English Patient which became a movie starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Kristin Scott Thomas. Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion
Following on from Tuesday’s post, here’s the second list of books read during 2016. Here’s the rating system I used in 2014 and 2015: LR = light, enjoyable read; GR = good, several
40 books in 2016 – several for research purposes, a number for reviews or articles, and a good number for pleasure – have to have some of those! Some were superb, others I
S.M. (Stuart) Harris is the author of The Northeast Quarter. He began writing professionally for the theater in 1991 when he was invited by the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York to
Michael Bolan is an Irishman based in Prague who writes historical fiction with a strong fantasy element. He’s the author of The Devil’s Bible Series is an adventure set in
Yesterday, I wrote the penultimate – I don’t think I’ve ever had occasion to use that word before – chapter for my WIP. And today I will write the last
If I were cleverer or a more experienced writer, I would have written my novels as a series. Planned them out in such a way that novel one would have
Some time ago, I began but did not finish Maria Duenas‘s debut novel The Time In Between a sweeping novel set in WWII Morocco. It still sits accusingly on my
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
