by envisionmg | Jul 13, 2016 | Historical Fiction, History, Today In History
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 1174 William I of Scotland is Captured by Henry II of England In 1173 the sons of...
by envisionmg | May 25, 2016 | Historical Fiction, History, Today In History
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 240BC The First Recording of a Perihelion Passage of Halley’s Comet Chinese...
by envisionmg | Apr 29, 2016 | Historical Fiction, Horror, Jim Reviews
Richardson’s The Damned, first book in the Darkest Hour Trilogy, (it sometimes appears as the Darkest Hand Trilogy) is a fascinating combination of alternate history, church murder mystery, and horror thriller all wrapped up in a nice dark fiction package. The...
by envisionmg | Feb 29, 2016 | Historical Fiction, History, Today In History
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to that day’s events. 1704 The Raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts. Early in the morning of February 29th, a...
by envisionmg | Feb 19, 2016 | Historical Fiction, History
You know how it is, you are finishing up reading a book and it hits you: “What am I going to read next?!” And it’s not that you don’t have other things to read, it’s that you have too much to read. Maybe you have piles of books on the...
by envisionmg | Jan 13, 2016 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
Those who have read Downing’s Jack of Spies (check out a review of that one here) will be happy to hear that the next book in the series One Man’s Flag is just as good. It is now 1915, and as Europe goes up in flames in the second year of World War I, Jack...
