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Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4326
- 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
I'm in Ulster in 1628 as a poet has put a curse on my family - we're all dooomed! 
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
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Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4326
- 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
It's 1920 and I'm in British East Africa. I've just built my new home and a medicine woman has gatecrashed my house warming party, laying a curse on my family. Looks like I've cut down a sacred fig tree where I'm planning to have my polo field. She's not pleased!
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
I'm just about to return to England from the Somme with my badly injured husband WW1
Reading The Promise by Lesley Pearse
Reading The Promise by Lesley Pearse
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
Just leaving Southhampton in 1938 to take my family to safety on our little boat after a week of bombs being dropped by an unknown enemy.
This one is chilling, to say the least. Nevil Shute's ORDEAL. He wrote it in 1938 and imagined what would happen to England if an enemy attacked and bombed the major ports and cities without warning. Terrible shortages of food and water, civil unrest and panic, cholera. In early 1939, the British ARP reprinted bits of it in pamphlets to accompany their own instructions for gas-masks, shelters, stock-piling food, etc. The thing that is most striking to me is the difference of the English people between the unready, bewildered populace of Shute as compared to the reality of the British in 1939 as they hunkered down through the Battle of Britain. This is a real foreshadow of Shute's later work, ON THE BEACH, in which he wrote of the aftermath of a devasting nuclear exchange. This one also focuses on ordinary people dealing with the horrors of a situation over which they have no control.
This one is chilling, to say the least. Nevil Shute's ORDEAL. He wrote it in 1938 and imagined what would happen to England if an enemy attacked and bombed the major ports and cities without warning. Terrible shortages of food and water, civil unrest and panic, cholera. In early 1939, the British ARP reprinted bits of it in pamphlets to accompany their own instructions for gas-masks, shelters, stock-piling food, etc. The thing that is most striking to me is the difference of the English people between the unready, bewildered populace of Shute as compared to the reality of the British in 1939 as they hunkered down through the Battle of Britain. This is a real foreshadow of Shute's later work, ON THE BEACH, in which he wrote of the aftermath of a devasting nuclear exchange. This one also focuses on ordinary people dealing with the horrors of a situation over which they have no control.
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Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4326
- 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
I'm in Wyckhadden (fictional seaside resort) at a seance.
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