I’m delighted to welcome Antoine Vanner, author of the Dawlish Chronicles, for a return visit to the blog. Set in the late Victorian period, the series of naval adventures are linked closely to real historical events, and sometimes personalities, of the period and in most feature a high degree of moral ambiguity and ethical […]
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December 13th, 2018 | Tags: age of steam, Antoine Vanner, Books, Heroes, historical, naval fiction, Nicholas Dawlish | Category: Authors, Guests, Research, Writing skills | 3 comments Darryl and Paul Bennett Today, my guest is the delightful Paul Bennett who lives in the New England town of Salem, Massachusetts with his wife Daryl and writes historical fiction, the first of which The Clash of Empires is set during the French and Indian Wars. Discovering his future did not include the fields […] December 5th, 2017 | Tags: Classics, French and Indian Wars, historical, historical fiction | Category: Authors, Books, Guests | One comment My guest today is Antoine Vanner is author of the Dawlish Chronicles, naval fiction set in the 1870s and 1880s. His latest novel, Britannia’s Gamble, was published last month (October 2017). Royal Navy officer Nicholas Dawlish is a fascinating character, very much in the mould of Hornblower, something that attracted me to Antoine’s novels. The […] November 2nd, 2017 | Tags: historical, historical fiction, historical realism, historical research, naval fiction | Category: Authors, Guests, Other people's websites/blogs, Research, Writing skills | 12 comments The Mitela women of Roma Nova are not the only women warriors to go armoured into battle. Sometimes we glimpse one from time to time in the real historical record. In celebration of the publication of Under the Approaching Dark, historical fiction writer Anna Belfrage introduces us to a(n in)famous one. Women in medieval times […] April 17th, 2017 | Tags: 14th century, English history, heroines, historical, Medieval history | Category: Authors, Books, Characters, France, Guests, Women warriors, Women's history | Leave a comment Delighted to welcome Tony Riches to the blog today. Tony is the author of best-selling medieval historical fiction, lives by the sea in Pembrokeshire, West Wales with his wife and enjoys sea and river kayaking in his spare time. His new book HENRY, is based on the life of King Henry VII and part of […] April 6th, 2017 | Tags: Books, Bosworth, Henry VII, Heroes, historical, Tudors | Category: Authors, Characters, Guests | 4 comments |
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