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Crime Scene: ANDREW TAYLOR The Scent of Death. Reviewed by Peter Corris

by NRB | 20 Aug 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

The winner of the 2013 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award, this impressive historical crime novel gives a hard-edged depiction of the mindlessness of war. The historical crime novel is a sub-genre and a tricky one. The writer has to satisfy, as it were, two separate...

ELISABETH STORRS The Golden Dice: Tales of Ancient Rome Book 2. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson

by NRB | 15 Aug 2013 | Fiction | 0 comments

The second book of Tales of Ancient Rome intertwines the stories of three women to again create a fascinating novel of love and war, richly steeped in history. There is an intriguing hiatus between the previous novel in this series, The Wedding Shroud, and The...

ROSE TREMAIN Merivel: A Man of His Time. Reviewed by Peter Corris

by NRB | 27 Nov 2012 | Fiction | 0 comments

This sequel to Restoration is a hectic, witty adventure set in seventeenth-century England and Europe. When, in my constant search for a readable historical novel, I encountered Rose Tremain’s Restoration in 1980, my day was made (several days actually). It...

KATE FORSYTH Bitter Greens. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by Jean Bedford | 28 Jun 2012 | Fiction, SFF | 4 comments

An imaginative interweaving of magic, fairytale and history. Kate Forsyth is well known for her conventional fantasy novels – particularly for the Witches of Eileanan and Rhiannon’s Ride series. She’s also a poet, an author of several children’s fantasy books and a...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on historical fiction

by NRB | 14 Apr 2012 | Fiction, The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Historical novels have always been my favourite kind of recreational reading. From Baroness Orczy’s Scarlet Pimpernel to Georgette Heyer’s Regency bucks to sterner stuff like Henry Treece’s  bloody tales of Saxon and Roman Britain, I escaped from a dreary...
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