For me, S J A Turney is one of the best historical fiction writers around at the moment. As anyone interested in fiction set in…
Ancient Egypt is a place shrouded in myth, mystery and misunderstanding, much of it seemingly deliberately inspired by the people themselves. In other words, it…
From a British point of view, events in the Middle East and North Africa during the Second World War were at least as important as…
Autobiographies and memoirs can be a bit of a minefield. Even if you weed out those written by ‘celebrities’ not yet old enough to hold…
Crohn’s Disease and I have been living together now for nearly 38 years. It’s not always been a happy relationship; we don’t send Christmas cards,…
I am a great fan of Stephen Saylor’s ‘Roma sub Rosa’ series; Gordianus is one of my favourite fictional characters. Having completed the original series,…
This is a very dense book! In 600 pages, it aims to cover a period of nearly a thousand years; a period that still forms…
What is a blog for? I’ve asked myself that many times over the years. I’ve now decided that there are as many answers as there…