Category: History
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Ten Historical Fiction Novels Worth Reading (more than once)
In these days I’m utterly enjoying Mantel’s Wolf Hall, a novel based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, which is one of the best historical…
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(More) historical fiction. Forthcoming reviews
In the last six months, for a series of reasons I’ll talk about in a future post, I’ve been watching a lot of historical…
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Historical Fiction from the Renaissance – The Tudors
I have just finished watching Showtime’s historical series The Tudors (now entirely on Netflix), and I have to say I have mixed feelings about it.…
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Rome (BBC Series, Netflix). A review
It seems ancient history takes the fancy, nowadays – at least, this is the impression you get by browsing Netflix’s offer. I can’t complain…
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Roman Empire: Reign of Blood – (a lot of) history in my fiction
During the (rather few) moments NaNoWriMo let me free to do something else, I’ve started watching a new series now premiering on Netflix. Historical…
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Speculative Fiction Podcasts: Interview with Kevin Frost, Gallery of Curiosities
After having published two posts in the past months re: speculative fiction podcasts (I’m not done with the general overview yet, but there’a lot…
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Worldbuilding for historical fiction – travels
That worldbuilding is complicated and time-consuming is something every creator of fiction, no matter the media adopted, knows well. Creating detailed and coherent fantasy…
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Borgia: an exercise in historical fantasy
There’s no way this series can be labelled anything else. Certainly not historical tout-court, for the reasons I will explain below. I don’t normally…