Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
I came across a mention of Julie d’Aubugny when Oisin McGann retweeted a Quite Interesting fact about her Has anyone written a biography or fictionalised account,...
23 February 2019
The Witch dir. by Robert Eggers
IMDB description : New England, 1630: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When...
21 August 2016
War of the arrows dir. by Han-min Kim
Nam Yi (Hae-il Park) and his younger sister Ja-in (Chae-won Moon) escape the government assassins who kill their father and flee to a family friend. There...
27 January 2015
Girl with a pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier
In seventeenth century Holland Griet is about to become a maid. She is sixteen years of age. Her father was blinded in an accident so the...
30 April 2014
Year of wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The year is 1665 and Anna Frith is a widow at only 18 years of age. She has two young sons to support and she works...
15 March 2014
Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper
Little Hawk is about to leave his family and village to go into the woods and live alone for three months, a ritual that will see...
9 October 2013
The truth about Mr. Darcy by Susan Adriani
The great thing about working in a library is that I find myself picking up books that I usually wouldn’t. The terrible thing about working in...
14 January 2012
An instance of the fingerpost by Iain Pears
ISBN: 009975181x Read with HistoricalFavorites Marco da Cola, gentleman of Venice, respectfully presents his greetings. This was a wonderful read. When I first started it I...
12 September 2010
Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer
No ISBN ; Elsewhere Set after the execution of Charles I, this book tells the story of Charles II after his forces lose the Battle of...
23 October 2008
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...
17 July 2007
Witch Child by Celia Rees
by Celia Rees
Mary doesn’t know her parents, she has lived her life with her grandmother. But in 1659 a witchfinder comes to her village and her grandmother is found guilty of witchcraft, by virtue of the fact that she floats in water, and killed. Mary might be next, but she is rescued by a mysterious, rich, well-dressed woman, and sent across the ocean in the company of some Puritans.
18 July 2006
Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this
Auto blog post while I’m away #1 Wherever you go at the moment you can’t avoid seeing references to the Da Vinci Code. It is everywhere....
29 May 2006