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Book Review: Days of Sun and Glory by Anna Belfrage

Posted on February 8, 2017 by

  In this second book in her King’s Greatest Enemy series, Anna Belfrage builds on the excellent set of characters introduced to us in In The Shadow of the Storm. The new novel concentrates once again on the exploits of … Continue reading →

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Book Reviews: Alison Morton’s Roma Nova

Posted on November 23, 2016 by

When Alison Morton asked me to take a look at her new book, Insurrectio, a few months ago, my first reaction was guilt because I’d been meaning to read her previous four books for ages. Like the rest of us, … Continue reading →

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Lady of the Eternal City by Kate Quinn – a Review

Posted on March 5, 2015 by

There are so many excellent writers around today that I’m never surprised when I discover another one. I was unfamiliar with Kate’s work until I read the fabulous A Day of Fire – a Novel of Pompeii. I loved her … Continue reading →

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Learning to Swim in the Self-Published Fiction Lake

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

A while ago I did a guest post on another blog about my experiences with self-publishing. Now, not much older and only a bit wiser, I thought I had a few more things to say about it. There are so … Continue reading →

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