People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult (jan 2008)
Average Customer Review on Amazon: 4 stars
Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly:
Reading Geraldine Brooks’s remarkable debut novel, Year of Wonders, or more recently March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, it would be easy to forget that she grew up in Australia and worked as […]
As the latest film installment of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian is receving little better than average in its reviews. Entertainment Weekly gave the film a “B minus;” On Rotten Tomatoes, its average rating is 6.3/10; and it received two thumbs down from Ebert & Roeper. I haven’t seen Prince Caspian yet. I […]
An Endless Exile by Mary Lancaster
Paperback: 340 pages
Publisher: Bladud Books (October 4, 2005)
Average Customer Review on Amazon: 5 stars (4 reviews)
Description:
The love story of Hereward the Wake and the mystery and tragedy behind his brutal murder. An Endless Exile is the story of the eleventh century hero, Hereward “the Wake”, the only Englishman to have […]
While I generally stick to posts related to medieval history and historical fiction and fantasy, I ran across this short blurb about The Alchemist by Paul Coelho being made into a movie. I haven’t read the novel yet, but I’ve heard really good things about it from friends, and I understand it’s a truly heartwarming, […]
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; New Ed edition (25 Mar 2005)
Description (from Amazon):
Mention author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the indefatigable super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes surely comes to mind. It may come as a surprise, then, that Doyle’s earlier writing includes historical fiction. When first published in 1891, […]