From UT San Diego : Barbara Mertz, an erstwhile Egyptologist better known to millions of readers as Barbara Michaels or Elizabeth Peter...

I had the pleasure of reading a new (and soon to be published) work by David featuring the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England and entit...

As I have been reading alot lately, it got me thinking about all those books written about history over the centuries.  As time has progres...

From North Jersey : On Saturday, Jan. 9, at 2 p.m ., author Michelle Cameron will be at the Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave., Whipp...

For those of you not already aware, renown Australian author, Colleen McCullough, underwent brain surgery on 11th December 2009. It was gre...

Some more interesting reads this week: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici. Review : ...

From JM Bown @ Mercury News : At 65, longtime Alameda resident JoAnn Smith Ainsworth was sort of forced to pursue her dream of becoming a no...

The story of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir. Okay - I began this book with severe trepidation. Weir is not one of my favourite authors - esp...

Subtitled as: "Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Fair Rosamond" by Richard Cameron Low. Okay - I didn't finish it, so how then can ...

"The Winter Mantle" by Elizabeth Chadwick concerns the events immediately after the Norman Conquest of England. The main character...

I am about to embark on some "light" reading. My poor brain is completely "fried" - overworked and just plain old tired,...