Lord of Sunset is an historical novel about the life of Harold of Wessex, the last Saxon king of England. Harold is a shadowy historical character, best known as an embroidered figure on the Bayeaux tapestry. Parke Godwin takes this figure and brings him to three-dimensional life. Harold is the second son of a powerful…
I frankly don’t know what to say about this book. But, if you’re willing to stay with me here, I’m willing to take a stab at it. Have you read James Fenimore Cooper’s, The Last of the Mohicans? Voluntarily? Or did you study only parts of it in the tenth grade, as I did? This…
I discovered Persia Woolley by accident about six years ago, before I even dreamed of writing a novel of my own. A small notice appeared in the local Valley Press announcing publication of a trilogy of historical novels published by Poseidon Press. I went out and bought the first book, Guinevere trilogy, and it took…
this review is by Arnette Lamb The first time I read Border Lord, I was about twelve. I fell in love with both the Border Lord (Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell) and Sir Patrick Galbraith; and I loathed the Earls of Morton and Maitland (the king’s wicked advisers and Bothwell’s worst enemies), and wondered…
During the Irish potato famine, Gerald Keegan, a schoolteacher of County Sligo, made a note in his diary about a gift of corn from the Choctaw Indians of the United States. Eileen Charbonneau has taken this diary entry and fashioned an unusual and compelling historical novel around it. Rachel LeMoyne is part French and part…
I’d like to mention the work of Dorothy Dunnett. This author, though a historical novelist and not a romance author, has had a profound effect on my romance writing, and I’d say that her novel Checkmate is one of the best romances ever written. However, it’s the last in a series of six thick books…
Although All We Hold Dear was reviewed in Romantic Times and was nominated for a Romantic Times award, the spine of this book, a re- issue in paperback of last year’s hardcover, does not refer to the book as a romance. I do not believe it to be a romance either. True, it is romantic…