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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Steampunk themed photo: Kyle Cassidy
When people ask me about my books, I say “Thrillers – alternative history thrillers. They’re set in a world where the historical timeline changed in the past and a different looking world evolved.”
But the reactions can be interesting. Here’s one typical conversation I had at a book […]
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