by envisionmg | Sep 25, 2015 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
By Jim One of the things I’m always on the look out for is historical fiction set in an under represented time periods and locations. Elsa Hart’s Jade Dragon Mountain fits both of those categories. This is Hart’s first novel and it is set in 1708 in...
by envisionmg | Sep 18, 2015 | Fiction, Jim Reviews
By Jim Ok, I’ll admit I picked up Ed Greenwood’s Iron Assassin because of the cover. A skull wearing a tattered top hat and high collar coat, with clockwork behind one eye is hard to say no to. It turned out to be a really great story. Some may know Ed...
by envisionmg | Aug 28, 2015 | Fiction, Jim Reviews
By Jim War at the Edge of the World is the first book in a series by Ian James Ross. Aurelius Castus is a newly arrived centurion to a Roman Legion stationed in 4th century AD northern Britain. Britain is a pretty quiet billet for Castus, who had come from service in...
by envisionmg | Aug 14, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
by Jim Abulafia’s The Great Sea has been on my bedside table for what seems like years. Actually it has been years. It is just exactly what it says it is a history of the Mediterranean from prehistory to 2010. The thing that has been stopping me is that, minus...
by envisionmg | Jul 17, 2015 | Jim Reviews, Non-fiction
by Jim If Marilyn Johnson’s name looks familiar you may, like me, remember her from her first book, This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. In fact, Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble basically...
by envisionmg | Jul 3, 2015 | Fiction, Jim Reviews
By Jim I first read Beryl Markham’s West with the Night when I was 15 or 16. I had an obsession with bush pilots and read anything I could find about them. West with the Night caught my attention because it was the autobiography of a bush pilot in Africa....
