Lucinda Byatt
Fashioning History: Current Practices and Principles
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This is a book on historical practice and the methods used to fashion the past. How should historians position themselves in order to ...Read Review
The Secret Knowledge
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Whether this qualifies as historical fiction is a moot point: it’s set in multiple pasts, multiverses, spanning the 20th century, from 1913 Paris ...Read Review
The Spanish Armada
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Naval battles in the early modern period, as Hutchinson writes, carried their own brand of particular terror: the cannonades, the terrible wounds caused ...Read Review
In Diamond Square
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This classic Catalan novel was first published in 1962, and this is the third English translation, to mark the book’s fiftieth anniversary. Rodoreda ...Read Review
Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers
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It is instructive to remember that Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a gifted author with “the rare distinction of being trained in Greek”, could comment, “...Read Review
Appetite
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Think of synaesthesia: a young boy realises that, for him, tastes or scents trigger other senses and associations. Then set the scene in ...Read Review
A Name in Blood
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
The mystery of Caravaggio’s last months and death has never been satisfactorily resolved: traditionally, he is said to have died of malaria, ...Read Review
The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History
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This notorious case has undergone numerous academic and popular study, following the centenary of Alfred Dreyfus’ rehabilitation in 1906. The subtitle of Read’s ...Read Review
Wolves in Winter
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Hilton’s latest novel, Wolves in Winter, is the first of a trilogy set in Renaissance Italy. The scene is set by the ...Read Review
The Deadly Sisterhood
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After her much lauded biography of Catherine de’ Medici, Frieda has shifted her chronological focus back a few years and broadened it to ...Read Review
