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Category Archives: Historical Fiction
The Ionian Mission
For me, this blog is as much about keeping a record of my reading to serve as a memory aid as it is about sharing my reading with an audience. (Not that you dear readers aren’t lovely, but I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction
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The Book of Night Women
I read The Book of Night Women by Marlon James a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been putting off writing about it — not because I don’t have anything to say, but because it’s such an interesting and complex book … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction
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A Treacherous Likeness
Note: I plan to discuss this novel and its plot in detail. I don’t think you can really “spoil” it, given that the events of the novel are historical and well-known, but Lynn Shepherd gives them her own interpretation, so … Continue reading
Queens’ Play
When the second of Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles begins, Francis Crawford of Lymond is no longer a pariah and exile but a trusted protector of the Queen of Scotland. The six-year-old queen is being brought up in the French court, … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction
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Life After Life
No breath. All the world come down to this. One breath. Little lungs, like dragonfly wings failing to inflate in the foreign atmosphere. No wind in the strangled pipe. The buzzing of a thousand bees in the tiny curled pearl … Continue reading
The Children’s Book
Fairly early on in A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book, Olive and Humphry Wellwood throw a huge, Bohemian costume-party, patterned after A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They are friends with all sorts of people: artists and artisans, Fabians and fabulists, socialists and … Continue reading
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The Surgeon’s Mate
The beginning of the seventh novel in Patrick O’Brian’s sea-faring adventure series finds Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin in Halifax, having just escaped the Americans who were holding them captive in Boston. With them is Diana Villiers, who has left … Continue reading
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The Game of Kings
“Lymond is back.” It was known soon after the Sea-Catte reached Scotland from Campvere with an illicit cargo and a man she should not have carried. “Lymond is in Scotland.” It was said by busy men preparing for war against … Continue reading
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Kiku’s Prayer
For centuries, Christianity was strictly forbidden in Japan. Japanese citizens were required to express their renunciation of Christianity by stepping on fumi-e, carved images of Jesus and Mary. Those who refused were subjected to painful tortures. This practice, depicted in … Continue reading
The Fortune of War
I closed out 2012 with the sixth of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin novels, The Fortune of War. This novel picks up shortly after Desolation Island, with Captain Jack Aubrey being released from command of the just-barely-seaworthy Leopard and reassigned to the … Continue reading
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