Literary photos
Literary photos, including John Betjeman at St Pancras and Sherlock Holmes on the tiles at Baker Street, from my recent visit to England.
Month: March 2015
Bothwell in Brussels
How to get James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, into the story? Turns out he was in Brussels in 1565. Also includes a translation of “Vadstenabullret”.
March already
March already: a belated blog update on life in Brussels in bureaucracy, health and sickness – with an interesting fact about Belgian cough medicine.
Her hidden face – cover-art on historical fiction
Commentary spun off from last week: why so much cover-art for historical novels with female protagonists features a woman who hides her face or whose face is hidden.
Writing Historical Fiction – a review
A review of the book Writing Historical Fiction: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion by Celia Brayfield and Duncan Sprott published by Bloomsbury.