I’m often asked this when I do interviews, talks or simply chatting to readers, but I don’t think I’ve ever put it all in one place on this my own blog.
Well, three things!
Ampurias mosaic
The first was when I was on holiday in north-east Spain one summer. Here’s the story…
A […]
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Historical fiction is a broad church; a re-telling real events, quasi-biographical fiction, romantic, adventure, fantastical and detective stories, tales from the cave to the 1960s and set in every country and social situation you can imagine. And within that mix are counter-factual, alternative history stories, the ‘what ifs’ which project a possible different timeline from […]
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Lupercales, Andrea Camassei (1602-1649), Prado Museum
Mid February, the time of roses and chocolate when romance is in the air… And isn’t it the quaint descendant of the old Roman festival of Lupercalia?
Er, no. ‘Quaint’ is definitely not the word.
In AD 495, Christian bishop of Rome, Gelasius, finally managed to […]
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