Tag: Historical Fiction

Janet Dean Knight
Author Q&A

Janet Dean Knight – Q&A

Janet Dean Knight explores contemporary themes through historical fiction. Her debut novel, The Peacemaker is a moving story of a young woman’s struggle to make […]

20th May 2022
Gill Thompson
Author Q&A

Gill Thompson – Q&A

Gill Thompson is an English lecturer who completed an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University. Her first novel, THE OCEANS BETWEEN US, tells the […]

11th February 2022
Secrets of a Sun King
Book Review

Secrets of a Sun King

Emma Carroll. Faber & Faber. (304p) ISBN 9780571328499 In Emma Carrol’s latest historical adventure for Middle Grade we find Lilian and her friends in a […]

3rd August 2020
The Miniaturist
Book Review

The Miniaturist

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4th April 2020
The Wolf and the Watchman
Book Review

The Wolf and the Watchman

Niklas Natt och Dag. John Murray Press. (416p) ISBN 9781473682146 The Wolf and the Watchman was one of my favourite books of 2019. As I’ve […]

26th March 2020
Burial Rites
Book Review

Burial Rites

Hannah Kent. Pan Macmillan. (384p) ISBN 9781447233176 My manager had been pressing me to widen my reading material and when she found I had never […]

3rd March 2020