Portrait of Virginia Woolf by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938), Victorian studio photographer. Virginia Woolf wrote her famous essay, A Room of One’s Own in 1928 / 1929, reworking ideas from two lectures she had given to her students at Cambridge...

Photo by Sapphireblue. On her blog A World of Words, Lucinda Byatt writes: Thanks to Rita Charbonnier for drawing my attention to this great discussion among fans of Italian historical novels and four authors – at the moment of writing this, there...

This was quite an unusual book signing for my new historical novel Alexander Dumas’ Strange Day – published only in Italian, for the moment. I was wearing an 18th century costume! It was during the 2009 Turin International Book Fair and it was so...