I am here because I have both an avid love for historical fiction, mostly set in the ancient period, and because I am a new author.
My main love is the Minoan/Mycenaean time period. I run a blog where I post regular tidbits about the art, culture, religion, dress, etc. of the age.
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Hello from Laura Gill
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4378
- Joined: August 2008
- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Welcome, Laura! I hope you enjoy it here.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- sweetpotatoboy
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1641
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: London, UK
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3566
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
- boswellbaxter
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3066
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: North Carolina
- Contact:
Hi, Laura, glad to have you here!
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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Coming in October: The Woodvilles
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/
Hi, Laura, and welcome! One of my favorite books set in what I think would be your area is THE AMBER PRINCESS by Henry Treece.
THE RED LILY CROWN: A Novel of Medici Florence.
THE FLOWER READER.
THE SECOND DUCHESS.
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THE FLOWER READER.
THE SECOND DUCHESS.
www.elizabethloupas.com
[quote=""MLE""]Hi Laura. What is your favorite HF read?[/quote]
I don't know. I have many HF reads on my keeper shelf. I like Margaret George's Cleopatra and Henry VIII books, anything by India Edghill and Pauline Gedge, Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, Morgan Llewellyn, Edward Rutherford.
I don't know. I have many HF reads on my keeper shelf. I like Margaret George's Cleopatra and Henry VIII books, anything by India Edghill and Pauline Gedge, Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, Morgan Llewellyn, Edward Rutherford.