#historicalnovels — Public Fediverse posts

“Military moustache, boxer’s broken nose, narrowed stare, that glint of menace some women find irresistible. I was face-to-face with Herbert Jackson.”

—Ajay Close on WHAT WE DID IN THE DARK: her novel of Catherine Carswell’s disastrous first marriage

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/opening-doors-how-i-wrote-what-we-did-in-the-dark/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #InternationalWomensDay #historicalnovels

📖 #VendrediLecture n° 40

Connie WILLIS, All Clear.

Quatrième et dernier volet de la tétralogie de Connie Willis sur les voyages dans le temps. Nos historiens-voyageurs sont toujours coincés sous les bombes durant le Blitz londonien... Ça tire un petit peu en longueur mais le suspense arrive à se maintenir.

#bookstodon #livres #Books #roman #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SF #mastolivre #timetravel #WWII #Blitz
#historicalnovels #histoire #MichaelMoorcock #ConnieWillis

📖 #VendrediLecture n° 40

Connie WILLIS, All Clear.

Quatrième et dernier volet de la tétralogie de Connie Willis sur les voyages dans le temps. Nos historiens-voyageurs sont toujours coincés sous les bombes durant le Blitz londonien... Ça tire un petit peu en longueur mais le suspense arrive à se maintenir.

#bookstodon #livres #Books #roman #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SF #mastolivre #timetravel #WWII #Blitz
#historicalnovels #histoire #MichaelMoorcock #ConnieWillis

📖 #VendrediLecture n° 39

Connie WILLIS, Blackout.

Troisième volet de la tétralogie de Connie Willis sur les voyages dans le temps. Cette fois, nos historiens-voyageurs se retrouvent coincés au milieu du Blitz londonien. C'est contrariant. Parviendront-ils à s'échapper et à revenir en 2060 ? Telle est la question.

#bookstodon #livres #Books #roman #SciFi #ScienceFiction #mastolivre #timetravel #WWII #Blitz
#historicalnovels #histoire #ConnieWillis

inspired by some #Oxford novels I read recently, I'm trying to turn the #lostcities of my #familyhistory into a #readinglist of #historicalNovels:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/12/lost-cities-in-literature.html

https://www.cyclingeu.com/686256/with-our-army-in-flanders-%f0%9f%87%a7%f0%9f%87%aa%f0%9f%92%a5-a-thrilling-war-adventure-%f0%9f%93%96/ With Our Army in Flanders 🇧🇪💥 | A Thrilling War Adventure 📖 #ArmyLife #battlefield #Bicycling #Biking #BikingHungary #BookLovers #BookRecommendations #ClassicLiterature #ClassicWarStories #Cycling #flanders #HeroicTales #heroism #HistoricalFiction #HistoricalNovels #Hungary #MilitaryHistory #reading #soldiers #SoldiersOfWWI #TrenchWarfare #ValentineWilliams #WartimeAdventure #WartimeBravery #WithOurArmyInFlanders #WorldWarI #yt:cc=on

Sara Sheridan: Writing Historic Novels in the Age of Scott

A talk by author Sara Sheridan for the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. Sara’s own historical novels include The Fair Botanists, set in Enlightenment Edinburgh, & The Secrets of Blythswood Square, set in Victorian Glasgow

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfqk1gqq__8

#Scottish #literature #novels #HistoricalFiction #HistoricalNovels

Poul Anderson's 1960 historical novel The Golden Slave, a roller-coaster ride of action, betrayal and sudden changes in fortune in ancient Rome but with more to it than that. With characters who are not just modern people in historical costume.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/06/poul-andersons-golden-slave.html

#HistoricalNovel #HistoricalNovels #HistoricalFiction #PoulAnderson

THE CONQUISTADORES’ ARRIVAL, REIMAGINED in a playfully serious tale that darts as kaleidoscopically as a hummingbird between culture and culture and between the empires of past and present. Powerfully visual, sardonically witty. SOLID A

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/you-dreamed-of-empires-lvaro-enrigue/1143331343?ean=9780593544792

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#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #novel #novels #historicalnovels #magicrealism #mexico

Robert Graves had a unique and idiosyncratic approach to historical fiction. Best-known for I, CLAUDIUS but COUNT BELISARIUS, set against the background of Justinian's attempt to reconquer the Roman Empire in the West, is very much worth reading.

#HistoricalFiction #RobertGraves #RomanHistory #belisarius #justinian #Historicalnovel #Historicalnovels

LOVE AND MURDER IN PARIS and Versailles—a gorgeously suspenseful historical novel captures all the opulence and desperate poverty of 17th century France, and the all-consuming court scandal of the Affair of the Poisons. SOLID A

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-disenchantment-celia-bell/1142014152?ean=9780593317174

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#Books #book #bookreview #bookreviews #fiction #historicalfiction #HistoricalNovel #historicalnovels #France #affairofthepoisons

Every time I read #HistoricalNovels I get the urge to look up extra information but I don't because I want to avoid spoilers.

#AccursedKings

@kottke Thanks for the link! I am a big fan of Patrick O'Brians series of British Naval novels of the Napoleonic era with Jack Aubry and Stephen Maturin — one long continuous story. The first three, a trilogy of sorts, are:

Master and Commander
Post Captain
HMS Surprise

#PatrickOBrian #novels #BritishNavy #historicalNovels

@suswatibasu
I like approaching new regions and epochs of #history through well-researched #HistoricalNovels.
In the case of #Temüjin who became #Genghis Khan and his heirs, I can recommend the fascinating 4 books of #ConnIggulden's #Conqueror Series: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conqueror_(novel_series)

You can check them out at the #InternetArchive, which could use some donations in its legal battles against the media multinationals.

https://archive.org/details/lordsofbow0000iggu_k5o3

@Jennifer_Pinkley

@suswatibasu
I like approaching new regions and epochs of #history through well-researched #HistoricalNovels.
In the case of #Temüjin who became #Genghis Khan and his heirs, I can recommend the fascinating 4 books of #ConnIggulden's #Conqueror Series: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conqueror_(novel_series)

You can check them out at the #InternetArchive, which could use some donations in its legal battles against the media multinationals.

https://archive.org/details/lordsofbow0000iggu_k5o3

@Jennifer_Pinkley

@suswatibasu
I like approaching new regions and epochs of #history through well-researched #HistoricalNovels.
In the case of #Temüjin who became #Genghis Khan and his heirs, I can recommend the fascinating 4 books of #ConnIggulden's #Conqueror Series: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conqueror_(novel_series)

You can check them out at the #InternetArchive, which could use some donations in its legal battles against the media multinationals.

https://archive.org/details/lordsofbow0000iggu_k5o3

@Jennifer_Pinkley

@suswatibasu
I like approaching new regions and epochs of #history through well-researched #HistoricalNovels.
In the case of #Temüjin who became #Genghis Khan and his heirs, I can recommend the fascinating 4 books of #ConnIggulden's #Conqueror Series: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conqueror_(novel_series)

You can check them out at the #InternetArchive, which could use some donations in its legal battles against the media multinationals.

https://archive.org/details/lordsofbow0000iggu_k5o3

@Jennifer_Pinkley

@suswatibasu
I like approaching new regions and epochs of #history through well-researched #HistoricalNovels.
In the case of #Temüjin who became #Genghis Khan and his heirs, I can recommend the fascinating 4 books of #ConnIggulden's #Conqueror Series: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conqueror_(novel_series)

You can check them out at the #InternetArchive, which could use some donations in its legal battles against the media multinationals.

https://archive.org/details/lordsofbow0000iggu_k5o3

@Jennifer_Pinkley

I enjoyed this piece by historian Aanchal Malhotra on why she began writing a historical novel. Here's a quote: "My preoccupation as a writer, in whatever genre, has largely been of memory—the recording and preserving of it. It was silence that carved me into an oral historian, and a sensorial curiosity that made me a novelist."

#HistoricalFiction #OralHistory #HistoricalNovels

https://lithub.com/on-transforming-oral-history-into-historical-fiction/