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Witty, urbane Walter Map was a clerk, courtier and man of letters at the court of King Henry II. He was eventually made arch-deacon of Ox... -
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Photo copyright © James Potter Our guest this month is Robert Fabbri and we are very excited to have him here. His Vespasian novels have bee... -
One of the big thrills of discovering historical fiction as a child (in my case, the usual suspects: Sutcliff, Treece, Garfield) was the re... -
Before you go on reading, do click on this link and especially on the little film at the end of the description of the book. Lynn Shepherd h... -
Although my mother was German, she only lived for a year of her life in what is now Germany. She was born in Hindenburg/Zabrze in Upper Sile... -
I’ve reached that stage between projects when I don’t quite know what I’ll publish next. I’ve got several files of half-worked ideas, inclu... -
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Piazza della Signoria, Florence. Photo credit: Saliko I first set foot in this (normally much more crowded) square when I was twenty, on the... -
Thomas, Second Baron Lyttelton “Sir,” said Dr Johnson to his friend Dr Adams, “it is the most extraordinary thing that has happened in my d...
