finished reading Enemy of God 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Bernard Cornwell.
The Saxons threaten to overrun Briton; a search for a legendary artifact to bring back the Old Gods; a little blissful romance; Lancelot is a backstabbing, cowardly bastard; oaths, what are they good for? A touch more magic than in the first book, but just as hard, dirty & cynical.
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Memory & Moggies: McIlvanney, Muriel & Making a Novel
10 June, free online
Prof Zoë Strachan explores the inspiration behind her latest novel, the historical fiction Catch The Moments as They Fly (2023) – including the work of William McIlvanney, & Muriel Spark’s advice that writers should acquire a cat…
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https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/
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THE Q&A: AMBROSE PARRY
Married pair Marisa Haetzman & Christopher Brookmyre write historical crime fiction as “Ambrose Parry”. In The List’s Q&A they muse on the benefits of apple corers, being a gay panda, & putting your hands in the air like you just don’t care
Val McDermid – A Kick Up the Arts Live Podcast Recording
9 July, Portobello Bookshop, Edinburgh. Online & in person, tickets £0–£8.99
Join Val McDermid and Nicola Meighan for a special live recording of the Scottish Arts & Culture Podcast, A Kick Up the Arts, to celebrate the paperback publication of Val’s latest book, QUEEN MACBETH.
https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/val-mcdermid-with-nicola-meighan-queen-macbeth
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I just released to run my Japanese #historicalfiction on Mastodon! I'll update a new toot almost every day.
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DAYS IN GREEN
https://sns.dougetsusha.com/@dig_en
and renewed my website
https://pdp.xrea.jp/
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The two-party system collapsed, finally leading to a sixty-year civil war, even though the periodic government change worked well initially to compete to improve the governance system. This isn’t a story about our modern political situation.
On a late spring night in 1353, a ghost woman appeared before ex-Emperor Kōgon, who had been captured by the Southern Court...
