Elisabeth Storrs Historical Novels
Ancient Roman Historical Fiction
My guest today is Gillian Bagwell whose richly detailed historical novels bring to vivid life England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her latest book, Venus in Winter, is based on the first forty years of the life of the formidable four-times widowed dynast Bess of Hardwick who survived the turbulent reigns of five Tudor monarchs to become one of… read more
Sarah Johnson from Reading the Past is hosting a giveaway of The Golden Dice which is featured on her litblog together with my guest post ‘Goddesses, Priestesses and Princesses – feminine power within Etruscan society’ . Sign up and have a chance to win! Read more
Two lovers blamed for starting a war. Three women who must survive a siege. There would be few people who haven’t heard of the famous siege of Troy. The tales of the heroics of Achilles, Hector, Agamemnon and Menelaus have been handed down for thousands of years. So too the infamy of the lovers, Helen and Paris, who sparked the… read more
Over the last couple of years, many of you have been kind enough to express an interest as to when the sequel to The Wedding Shroud will be available. I’m now happy to announce that I plan to release The Golden Dice on 3 July. It’s been a roller coaster for me during this time as the contract with my… read more
My guest today is Sherry Jones, an American journalist and the internationally best selling author of the controversial The Jewel of Medina and other historical fiction novels about women’s power. She is also a speaker on issues including women’s rights, free speech, and Islamophobia. Her novels explore the obstacles women have long faced in reaching their highest potential in a… read more
My guest today is Jesse Blackadder who is fascinated by landscapes, adventurous women and very cold places. Her novel The Raven’s Heart won the Varuna HarperCollins Manuscript Development Award and was published in Australia in 2011 and in the UK, USA and Canada in 2012. Chasing the light: A novel of Antarctica,which she wrote as part of a Doctor of… read more
Remember the insane Bertha Rochester setting fire to Thornhill? Or the murdered Rebecca de Winter trapped in an underwater grave? For those of us who have read Jane Eyre or Rebecca, these personalities are as memorable as the male and female protagonists of those novels. And yet the reader mainly learns about them through the eyes or memories of other… read more
Aussies celebrate Australia Day this weekend! To give you a chance to share in the celebrations I’m offering the chance to win a copy of Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens in the AUSTRALIA DAY BOOK GIVEAWAY BLOG HOP. Make sure you visit Shelleyrae at Book’d Out and the girls at Confessions from Romaholics to find out other blogs who are participating… read more
A Smoke Backstage – William Harnett My guest today is M. Louisa Locke, a retired U.S history professor who has recently published the first two books in a series about Victorian San Francisco, Maids of Misfortune and Uneasy Spirits, both best-selling historical mysteries on Kindle. Locke blogs frequently on self-publishing, is a featured contributor to Publetariat, and is on the… read more
It is always shocking to be reminded that the majority of those sent to war are boys. The Absolutist, by John Boyne, brings this home with a poignant telling of the cruelties that soldiers wreak upon each other; not just against their enemies but also within their own ranks. Tristan returns from the Great War to peace-time England. He is… read more
