Read for this year’s RIP event. Part of The Estella Society’s readalong, although a much delayed addition. The story opens with a happy scene at Hundreds Hall, our narrator is remembering how grand the house was. How impressive it was … Continue reading
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8 March 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: Britain, Britain - 1950s
9 Stars
2 Comments
The death of grass by John Christopher
Read for the Not just for Stormtroopers sci-fi challenge It is the 1950s, and a devastating virus is sweeping Asia. It attacks grass, and grass feeds the world. Wheat is grass. And cows, sheep, etc all live on grass. At … Continue reading
20 December 2010
Genre: history, non-fiction, sociology
Setting: Britain, Interwar Europe
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Singled out by Virginia Nicholson
Full title: Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War ISBN: 9780670915644 In 1978, when she was eighty-five years old, Margaret Jones, known as May, wrote her autobiography. The term “lost generation” is … Continue reading
23 March 2010
Cast: Antonio Te Maioha, Dustin Clare
Genre: detective & mystery, historical fiction
Setting: 1920s, Britain, C20th
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Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
I do love these books.
This the sixth in the series returns our heroes to their present after the flashback that was O Jerusalem. That sentence doesn’t really make much sense, but figure it out, think of it as a challenge :) Holmes & Russell have just returned from The Moor and are settling back in at home when their comes a disturbance at their door. Ali Hazr has shown up, with a head wound and wanting their assistance. He needs their help with Mahmoud, his “brother”. Of course Holmes had already pointed out that neither of the two arabs they were travelling with were actually from that region, but it is, nevertheless, a surprise to learn where they come from and just what an aristocratic name both bear.
22 February 2010
Cast: James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Hurd-Wood
Script: Michael J. Bassett
Genre: Action, historical fiction, sff
Setting: Britain, Britain - middle ages
7 Stars
4 Comments
Solomon Kane [based on character/stories] by Robert E. Howard. directed by Michael J. Bassett
So y’all know that I luuurve James Purefoy, mainly because he was so great as Mark Anthony in Rome, but also so adorable in A Knight’s Tale so of course I was predisposed to like this. Then again I wasn’t too impressed with Vanity Fair so it doesn’t always follow that actors I like = good films. Continue reading
13 December 2009
Genre: detective & mystery, historical fiction
Setting: 1920s, Britain
2 Comments
The language of bees by Laurie R. King
Author: Laurie R. King
A Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mystery #9
It was only after I’d taken this book home that I realised it was one in a series, but I figured that it was more of a ‘verse type of series, so I read it anyway. According to wikipedia it is book 9 although only 2 others seem to have been published in Britain & Ireland. Or maybe it’s just that they switched publishers, I didn’t really look to closely into it to be honest. I’ll check at work tomorrow and see if we have any others but I won’t be hugely disappointed if we don’t.
29 October 2009
Genre: fictional biography, historical fiction
Setting: Britain, Britain - Tudors
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Daughter of Henry VIII by Iain Pears, Rosemary Churchill
Winter had withdrawn its iron grip from the land and triumphant spring burgeoned over the countryside. I enjoyed this book a lot more than i had suspected I would when I picked it up. But it only cost me .25 … Continue reading
8 August 2007
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: Britain, C15th
6 Stars
3 Comments
Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0330258303 See also: Dusty Pages | According to the introduction to this by Heyer’s son this novel was one of the 5 or 6 that Heyer wished never to be printed again. But her son didn’t think it was … Continue reading
The Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce
ISBN: 0575072318 See also:Agony column ; Joyce discusses his book ; If I could tell you this in a single sitting then you might believe all of it, even the strangest part. I’m quite a fan of Graham Joyce and … Continue reading
17 July 2007
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: Britain, Britain - Civil War & Revolution, C17th
8 Stars
3 Comments
Restoration by Rose Tremain
ISBN: 9780340936436 Read with HistoricalFavorites I am, I discover, a very untidy man. Look at me. Without my periwig, I am an affront to neatness. Robert Merival, the narrator of Rose Tremain’s Restoration, is, at the start of this book, … Continue reading
