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Book Shopping Today (2011 edition)
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3565
- 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
I'm on the last day of my vacation in London and I've done untold damage at Waterstone's, Hatchard's, and various Charaing Cross Road secondhand booksellers. A full list of what I've bought is coming, but I was most excited to see a reprint of MM Kaye's Shadow of the Moon at Hatchard's (the new cover they have for it is lovely).
- Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4351
- 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
From the Yorkshire Book Clearance shop in York:
The Temptress by Paul Spicer (I think this is actually a biography, not a fictional novel. Oh well, it was only £2!)
Everything and Nothing by Araminta Hall
From Waterstone's booksellers:
Stolen by Susan Lewis
Puritan Bride by Anne O'Brien
Daughter of Siena by Marina Fiorato
Also recently:
Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
Heartstone by C J Sansom
Prophecy by S J Parris
The Dynasty by Claire Lorrimer
From a book discount mail company:
Lady of the Rivers by Phillippa Gregory (£4.99 for the hardback and I don't think it's out in the book shops yet)
The King's Evil by Edward Marston
The Amorous Nightingale by Edward Marston
The Repentant Rake by Edward Marston
(first three books in the Christopher Redmayne detective series)
The Temptress by Paul Spicer (I think this is actually a biography, not a fictional novel. Oh well, it was only £2!)
Everything and Nothing by Araminta Hall
From Waterstone's booksellers:
Stolen by Susan Lewis
Puritan Bride by Anne O'Brien
Daughter of Siena by Marina Fiorato
Also recently:
Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
Heartstone by C J Sansom
Prophecy by S J Parris
The Dynasty by Claire Lorrimer
From a book discount mail company:
Lady of the Rivers by Phillippa Gregory (£4.99 for the hardback and I don't think it's out in the book shops yet)
The King's Evil by Edward Marston
The Amorous Nightingale by Edward Marston
The Repentant Rake by Edward Marston
(first three books in the Christopher Redmayne detective series)
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
- SonjaMarie
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 5688
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: Vashon, WA
- Contact:
With credit at my new/used store:
"Who Murdered Chaucer: A Medieval Mystery" by Terry Jones and others
"Medieval Lives" also by Jones.
SM
"Who Murdered Chaucer: A Medieval Mystery" by Terry Jones and others
"Medieval Lives" also by Jones.
SM
The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum
My Booksfree Queue
Original Join Date: Mar 2006
Previous Amount of Posts: 2,517
Books Read In 2014: 109 - June: 17 (May: 17)
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My Booksfree Queue
Original Join Date: Mar 2006
Previous Amount of Posts: 2,517
Books Read In 2014: 109 - June: 17 (May: 17)
Full List Here: http://www.historicalfictiononline.com/ ... p?p=114965
- boswellbaxter
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3066
- Joined: August 2008
- Location: North Carolina
- Contact:
I got the six-volume set of the Lisle letters in the mail today, along with Philippa Wiat's The Kingmaker's Daughter. Also gave into temptation and bought The Women of the Cousins' War by Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, and Michae Jones. yesterday.
Susan Higginbotham
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
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http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/
Coming in October: The Woodvilles
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/
http://www.susanhigginbotham.com/blog/
Just received the Massie book on Catherine the Great along with an old OOP From Distant Shroes by Bruce Nicolaysen. Early New York, 1600's and first in a series that I've heard good things about. Series detail here.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be