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#AmReading The Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger, an epistolary novel about a friendship between a precocious, fatherless tween and a surly baseball player during WWII. It's hilarious, a little sad, and a bit fantastical because the kid is so smart, passionate and stubborn he can make just about anything happen and everyone in both of their orbits becomes part of it.
On KU if you have it.
Hi #fedibookfair! I'm an #indieauthor (pubbed by a small press) and have 2 published novels. I write on themes of #hope & #humanity
THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW is a #medicalthriller #thriller #scifi set in near-future Seattle about a young surgeon battling a mega-corporation & its #AI -driven #healthcare to save her teen patient's life (on sale today $.99 on #kindle!)
THE COMMITTEE WILL KILL YOU NOW is the prequel, a #historicalfiction #suspense with a dual timeline 1960s/1990s Seattle
“Throughout her life, Mitchison was fascinated with the relationship of the ‘real’ & the ‘not real’—of history & fantasy, science & magic, reality & fiction.”
—Exploring Mitchison’s concept of the historical novel as a means of promoting social change
4/8
Looking to read some historical fiction set in medieval Norway? Check out this 4-volume book written by a Nobel Laureate in Literature https://www.medievalists.net/2024/10/new-medieval-books-olav-audunsson/ #HistoricalFiction #Books #Norway #MedievalFiction
An Evening with Chris Brookmyre
2 Oct, Discovery Point Dundee – tickets £9
It is over 25 years since multi-award-winning Christopher Brookmyre’s first book, QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING, was published. Since then, he has established himself as one of the most popular crime writers in the UK – & collaborating with his wife, Dr Marisa Haetzman, writing historical fiction under the name of Ambrose Parry
#Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction #HistoricalFiction
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-chris-brookmyre-tickets-972381016797
@writers What are some tropes that crop up a lot in #HistoricalFiction ? Some that come to mind are:
- Paint a picture with research: The lavishly described parts where you can tell the author Did Their Damned Research and is letting it rip onto the page with all the flair and artistry at their command. These passages are often done really well and I enjoy them, but they are almost always noticeable. Food is a common subject, and a feast scene from Indu Sundaresan's The Twentieth Wife comes to mind.
- Not like other girls of her time: You know the one, where the heroine is so outspoken! so strong! compared to the other silly, subjugated women of her time who are preoccupied with things like fashion and cosmetics. The heroine's refusal to conform earns her censures and whispering from an ignorant society but the manly male …
@writers What are some tropes that crop up a lot in #HistoricalFiction ? Some that come to mind are:
- Paint a picture with research: The lavishly described parts where you can tell the author Did Their Damned Research and is letting it rip onto the page with all the flair and artistry at their command. These passages are often done really well and I enjoy them, but they are almost always noticeable. Food is a common subject, and a feast scene from Indu Sundaresan's The Twentieth Wife comes to mind.
- Not like other girls of her time: You know the one, where the heroine is so outspoken! so strong! compared to the other silly, subjugated women of her time who are preoccupied with things like fashion and cosmetics. The heroine's refusal to conform earns her censures and whispering from an ignorant society but the manly male lead (who she often clashes with at first) admires her gumption, etc. Examples are too many to count, but Disney's animated Mulan has this down pat with a side dish of military worship.
It's Shameless Promo Thursday, when I remind you that I write books you might like to read. Up today: Leap! A Love Story.
Can Adelphos forgive himself and open his heart to love again?
* Gay romance
* Ancient Minoans
* Bull leapers
* Pagan rituals
* Pining and angst
* Happy ending
Details of this and all my other books via website link in my bio
#book #books #bookstodon #GayRomance #HistoricalFiction #HistoricalRomance #fiction #novel
John Buchan called FLEMINGTON – Violet Jacob’s novel of the 1745 #Jacobite uprising – “the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”, & The List magazine chose it as one of their Best 100 Scottish Books of All Time
@bookstodon
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #WomenWriters #romanticism #historicalfiction #ReadMoreWomen
3/7
https://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911
It's Shameless Promo Thursday, when I once again remind you that I write books you might like to read. This is a historical novel set in ancient Minoan Crete, and fair warning, it's a heavy read.
* Matriarchal culture
* Powerful priestesses
* Pagan rituals
* Culture clash
* No happy ending (you've been warned)
Details on my website (link in bio)
#book #books #bookstodon #FediBooks #HistoricalFiction #Minoan #AncientCrete #fiction #novel
Historian Yvonne Seale yvonne@hcommons.social on the women of the LYMOND CHRONICLES:
“some of the most compelling women characters you’re likely to find in print … after several years spent studying the history of women in pre-modern Europe […] I better understand just how much Dunnett’s female characters have both feet firmly planted in a sixteenth-century world”
5/5
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction
https://yvonneseale.org/blog/2019/05/14/the-women-of-the-lymond-chronicles/
“these books stand or fall with their leading man – and what a creation he is… Francis Crawford is arguably the perfect romantic hero”
Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles: far more than sex & swords
(but also: sex & swords! ⚔️🍆)
4/5
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles #HistoricalFiction
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) was born #OTD, 25 Aug, in Dunfermline. She is best known as a writer of #HistoricalFiction – in particular the six-part LYMOND CHRONICLES that begin with those three fateful words:
“Lymond is back.”
A 🎂 🧵 …
1/5
#Scottish #literature #DorothyDunnett #LymondChronicles
https://booksfromscotland.com/2019/06/rediscovering-dorothy-dunnett/
My "Pompeii Fire" took the gold medal for historical fiction set in the ancient world.
#indieauthor #awardwinning #historicalfiction #bookstodon #books
https://globalebookawards.com/2024-global-ebook-award-winners-2-2/
#FreeBook!
UK link
An unwanted daughter who became England's greatest Queen...
Elizabeth #Tudor
The Bastard Princess
#Tudor #ElizabethI #Histfic #HistoricalFiction #TudorFiction #Free #BookBargains #BooksWorthReading
#bookstagram #booktok
https://amzn.eu/d/00t8M9Id
