Category: History

  • REVIEW: Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries

    I’ve read a lot of Kate Mosse’s historical novels and I absolutely love them. They are great hulks of books and often flit between time periods, but are mainly based in Languedoc in France. I find them great page-turners. So when Ms Mosse brought out Warrior Queens at the end of last year, I had…

  • REVIEW: Burial Rites

    Oh my god this book is good. Go buy, borrow or steal it and read it immediately (actually don’t steal it, stealing is bad and wrong). I could leave it there, but I won’t obviously. It wouldn’t make for a very good blog post and this book deserves so much more than a one-liner. Burial…

  • REVIEW: The Silk Roads