Scribbling in the margins

Musings on the Historical Novel and life as it happens...

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Viking Ships

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Last week I was in Iceland and whilst there took the opportunity to collect information about Viking ships for my third novel in The Daught...
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Thursday, 30 January 2014

Lost in Romance

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On a recent trip to India I re-read M.M.Kaye's The Far Pavilions , a beautiful novel of romance and chivalry set in Afghanistan an...
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Sunday, 8 December 2013

Donegal Castle and Out and About in Donegal

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Even in chilly late November a trip to Donegal in the west of Ireland is magical. The loughs and the coast, the valleys and the mountains h...
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Saturday, 26 October 2013

Mystras, a Frankish Crusader Castle

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The Castle of Mystras Mystras is just over the Taygetos mountain from my summertime home near Kardamyli. It is situated only 6 km from ...
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Monday, 14 October 2013

Edith Swan-Neck Identifies the King's Body on Senlac Hill

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The Handfasted Wife is the story of King Harold's wife Edith Swan-Neck. As 14th October is the anniversary of The Battle of Hastings h...
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Carol McGrath
Writer of historical fiction, postgraduate research student at Royal Holloway University, London. I have an Mphil from University of London in English and Creative Writing and an MA in creative writing from The Seamus Heaney Centre QUB. My first degree is in English and Slavonic Studies from QUB. The Handfasted Wife my debut novel, first in a trilogy set in early medieval England is published by Accent Press 2013.
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