historical fiction | historical fiction
Aug.26.2012
The way the history of the Philippine revolution is taught in schools focuses on important personalities and their roles. It tends to gloss over the details, so one of our nation's greatest dramas is presented as unspeakably dull. Admittedly, it was not a sudden flame that burst and srpead like...
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Aug.24.2012
The Book of War is now available in the US via AfricanLookBook
"A BRILLIANT, unforgettable debut. Steeped in carnage..."
Andrew Donaldson in The Times:
"... one is thrown, like them, into the heart of the action, in a state of dread and fascination induced by the dire events, the ...
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Aug.18.2012
The Briton and the Dane: Birthright is free this weekend (8/18-8/19/12) in the Kindle Store:
US http://www.amazon.com/The-Briton-Dane-Birthright-ebook/dp/B005C5TAEU/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1345291085&sr=1-3&keywords=Mary+Ann+Bernal
UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/...
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Aug.12.2012
My guest today is M Louisa Locke, a retired U.S history professor who has recently published the first two books in a series about Victorian San Francisco, Maids of Misfortune and Uneasy Spirits, both best-selling historical mysteries on Kindle. Locke blogs frequently on self-publishing, is...
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Aug.10.2012
It's not pretty, but this is the only photographic proof that we got caught in a butterfly shower this morning, driving to the Eastern Townships. A dead one caught up against the grill of the car.
I tried to take pictures of the live ones, but it's difficult capturing a bombardment...
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Aug.05.2012
It is always shocking to be reminded that the majority of those sent to war are boys. The Absolutist, by John Boyne, brings this home with a poignant telling of the cruelties that soldiers wreak upon each other; not just against their enemies but also within their own ranks.
Tristan returns...
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Jul.26.2012
My favorite authors tend to produce widely varied works. Ray Bradbury, God rest his soul, Margaret Atwood, Madeleine L'Engle, Lois Lowry, and Nick Joaquin to name a few. Bradbury and Atwood's stories touch upon a wide variety of subjects, told from various points of view, are in various genres....
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Jul.24.2012
TODAY, reading Rosie Sultan’s debut novel Helen Keller in Love, I thought about the scene in Black Beauty when the barn catches on fire and Black Beauty’s groom covers the horse’s eyes with a scarf and leads him outside to safety. Black Beauty’s shrill whinny pierces...
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Jul.13.2012
My guest today is Nicole Alexander, a fellow Aussie author who shares the sources of her inspiration with us. In the course of her career Nicole has worked both in Australia and Singapore in financial services, fashion, corporate publishing and agriculture. A fourth generation grazier, Nicole...
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Jul.02.2012
It all started with a monkey.
Sailing to Freedom, author Martha Bennett Stiles's latest historical novel for middle grade readers, "was conceived as a short, funny picture book about a pie-stealing sailor’s monkey, inspired by one with which my naval officer father was acquainted in...
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