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- Mon August 12th, 2013, 11:58 am
- Forum: Books by Historical Fiction Online Members
- Topic: Guidelines and Additions
- Replies: 80
- Views: 32087
Here are the details of my latest book: 15th Century/Wars of the Roses: By Loyalty Bound - the story of the mistress of Richard III http://www.amazon.co.uk/By-Loyalty-Bound-Elizabeth-Ashworth/dp/1781593701/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376061935&sr=8-1&keywords=by+loyalty+bound http://www.amazon.com/BY-LO...
- Sun June 24th, 2012, 9:23 pm
- Forum: Author Announcements
- Topic: Free Kindle book: The Lady of Haigh
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1042
- Sun June 24th, 2012, 10:33 am
- Forum: Author Announcements
- Topic: Free Kindle book: The Lady of Haigh
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1042
Free Kindle book: The Lady of Haigh
Just dropping by to let you know that the short prequel to my latest novel is available as a free Kindle ebook today. http://www.amazon.com/The-Lady-of-Haigh-ebook/dp/B008CZ484E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340441275&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Lady+of+Haigh It's also on Amazon.co.uk http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-...
- Sat June 11th, 2011, 10:51 am
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: The Crimson Petal & The White by Michel Faber
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3942
I didn't watch the television version as I thought the squirm factor might be too high for me to watch it with my (adult) son. But having read a few reviews of the book I decided to give it a go. It took me an age to read it but the fact that I persevered to the end says something in its favour. I c...
- Sat June 11th, 2011, 10:41 am
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Time to smile with pleasure
- Replies: 5
- Views: 682
- Tue April 19th, 2011, 9:36 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Members who vanish
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5792
- Wed April 13th, 2011, 8:59 pm
- Forum: E-Readers and E-Book Issues
- Topic: Kindle Help Please!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2176
- Tue March 8th, 2011, 10:08 pm
- Forum: Author Announcements
- Topic: Doing the Happy Dance
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1878
- Sun January 30th, 2011, 9:22 pm
- Forum: By Author's Last Name M-Q
- Topic: Trail of Blood by Jeremy Potter
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2551
- Sun January 30th, 2011, 9:20 pm
- Forum: Questions and Research
- Topic: A little medieval help please
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3969
I think the issue of vocabulary depends on the time the story is set. Up to around 1400 the upper classes would have spoken French and the native English speakers would have used a language incomprehensible to us today. Any speech in a medieval book is a translation from the original language. So, w...