Mostly Historical

Doomsday Book

Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book combines science fiction and historical fiction in a time travel drama, with academia and the plague.…

1 month ago

Roman Reads for the Ides of March

Happy Ides of March! Obviously, the best way to commemorate the assassination of Julius Caesar is by collectively stabbing the…

10 months ago

Ela of Salisbury Mysteries

Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, by J. G. Lewis, is a series of historical murder mysteries, in which the very…

11 months ago

The Saga of Marathon, by Nicholas Checker

As you probably know, I only ever run to catch a train, so I’m using  “marathon” here in the sense…

2 years ago

Backlist Book Review: The Cazalet Chronicles

The Cazalet Chronicles is a five-book historical fiction series, by Elizabeth Jane Howard. The novels follow the British Cazalet family…

2 years ago