I've also won a copy of Red Dragon White Dragon.
I'm also getting two advance reading copies to read and review - Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield (I loved The Thirteenth Tale so am quite excited to receive this one!) and Stormbird by Conn Iggulden.
Welcome to the Historical Fiction Online forums: a friendly place to discuss, review and discover historical fiction.
If this is your first visit, please be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You will have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing posts, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
If this is your first visit, please be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above.
You will have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed.
To start viewing posts, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
Book Shopping Today: 2013 Edition
-
Vanessa
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 4335
- 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
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
Going off historical with Nora Roberts' Whiskey Beach from the library and The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman on my Kindle.
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
-
Nefret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2989
- Joined: February 2009
- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
From the library (it's kinda shopping, right?)
The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
Lady Macbeth by Susan F. King
The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
Lady Macbeth by Susan F. King
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
-
JenniferLovesRoxi
- Scribbler
- Posts: 30
- Joined: May 2013
My most recent Kindle additions:
Imprimatur by Rita Monaldi- HF set in 17th C Rome during a time of plague, involving the discovery of a plot to murder the Pope and the war between the Catholics and the Ottoman Empire.
The Anatomist's Wife by Anna Lee Huber- HF/ Historcal Mystery about a female anatomist in early 19th C. Scotland asked to solve a murder although she was shunned for society for her interest in science
The Countess by Rebecca Johns- HF about Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess
The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth- tells the story of how the Grimm brothers fables were created with the help of a girl one of them loved
The Reluctant Empress by Brigitte Hamann- NF biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Counting the Stars by Helen Dunmore- HF set in Late Republican Rome, deals with the love poet Catullus and his older, married mistress Clodia
The Pericles Commission, The Ionia Sanction & Sacred Games by Gary Corby- Books 1-3 of Historical Mystery series set in Ancient Greece
The Crook and Flail by L.M. Ironside- Book 2 of the HF She- King series about Hatshepsut
Corrag: A Novel by Susan Fletcher- HF set in 17C Scotland, got great reviews
Asenath by Anna Patricio- HF set in Ancient Egypt about a girl who is captured by an enemy tribe and sold into slavery
The Venetian Contract by Marina Fiorato- HF set in 1576 Venice when plague spreads through the city, also deals with the war with the Ottoman Empire
Imprimatur by Rita Monaldi- HF set in 17th C Rome during a time of plague, involving the discovery of a plot to murder the Pope and the war between the Catholics and the Ottoman Empire.
The Anatomist's Wife by Anna Lee Huber- HF/ Historcal Mystery about a female anatomist in early 19th C. Scotland asked to solve a murder although she was shunned for society for her interest in science
The Countess by Rebecca Johns- HF about Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess
The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth- tells the story of how the Grimm brothers fables were created with the help of a girl one of them loved
The Reluctant Empress by Brigitte Hamann- NF biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Counting the Stars by Helen Dunmore- HF set in Late Republican Rome, deals with the love poet Catullus and his older, married mistress Clodia
The Pericles Commission, The Ionia Sanction & Sacred Games by Gary Corby- Books 1-3 of Historical Mystery series set in Ancient Greece
The Crook and Flail by L.M. Ironside- Book 2 of the HF She- King series about Hatshepsut
Corrag: A Novel by Susan Fletcher- HF set in 17C Scotland, got great reviews
Asenath by Anna Patricio- HF set in Ancient Egypt about a girl who is captured by an enemy tribe and sold into slavery
The Venetian Contract by Marina Fiorato- HF set in 1576 Venice when plague spreads through the city, also deals with the war with the Ottoman Empire
Last edited by JenniferLovesRoxi on Fri August 9th, 2013, 1:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.
-
Berengaria
- Avid Reader
- Posts: 307
- Joined: July 2010
- Location: northern Vancouver Island, BC Canada
Just bought Venus in Winter by Gillian Bagwell. From the first several pages I have read, it seems quite interesting! 
My 4 girls! No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ~Lady Montagu