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

Saturday, 6 June 2015

Castles in The Swan-Daughter

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In the aftermath of 1066 King William built castles to help secure his hold on England. Initially these were Motte and Bailey castles. On h...
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Saturday, 28 March 2015

A Literary Festival on Alderney

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For those who might not know, Alderney is a small island in The English Channel. Last week, I boarded a tiny plane that flew from Southampt...
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Sunday, 1 February 2015

Discovering Padua, Venice and Verona in Winter

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Venice on a chill January day with blue skies and sunshine is a pleasanter experience than Venice in mid-summer when it is crowded, hot and...
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Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Great Reads from 2014

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Without doubt my greatest love, second maybe to writing novels, is reading books. During 2014 I read many great novels, a variety of genres...
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Saturday, 15 November 2014

Was Waterloo entirely a British Victory?

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Waterloo is a much written about battle. My great, great grandfather's regiment, The Scot's Greys, fought at Waterloo. Author Tom W...
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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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