I’m glad he has a good word to say about Moravia. Selina Hastings’s new biography of Maugham has had very good reviews and joins several fascinating predecessors, including the reminiscences by his nephew Robin. iTunes has an album of the old man reading two stories, The Three Fat Women of Antibes (the cover art says

I've recently joined the Historical Novel Society. Amongst other things, each issue of the society's journal – the Historical Novels Review - briefly reviews a great number of historical ... important – and interesting – things about writing histfic. But how important is it to readers? If you read historical fiction, what are the criteria by which you judge a historical ...

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... kindda hard for me to stop. And my latest craze have to be the historical romance novels. But with so many bookstores loitering around town, it's so demmed hard to find the novels that I want. So I ended up searching it online. Managed to find 2 ... t manage to get it from her yet so I just read the 2 e-book novels for the time being. Besides I have 4 new books from the library. My bff ...

... is mid-November 09. As usual I separate the novels in categories, this time just three: mainstream, fantasy and sf. ... ages - Amazon inside has it HERE; love, destiny, historical responsibility in the context of turbulent eras in Provence ... opera or maybe space opera reexamined, this is the shortest of all the novels mentioned here and is a must read for anyone that loves that sub-genre; the memoirs ...

... review of both books from Cross of Laeken. Matterhorn contradicts the criticism the novels have sometimes received, that the characters are too pious and idealized, saying:I have read several reviews claiming the books ... be a part of some contemporary lives but it certainly played a part in the lives of many historical characters. To ignore or downplay the faith of characters in a historical novel is ...