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Category: Historical Fiction

January 14, 2023

Review: Babylon, Robert Fabbri

Rating: 4 out of 5 Immensely enjoyable even without Eumenes to lead the way, Mr Fabbri’s continuation of this saga delivers again. There are…

August 1, 2022

Review: Archias the Exile-Hunter – The Siege of Tyros, Robert Fabbri

Rating: 2 out of 5 It is difficult to take a series that is going well and to add to it with short stories….

February 11, 2022

Review: An Empty Throne, Robert Fabbri

Rating: 3 out of 5 This is a solid continuation of the series though for established readers there is little new: the characters continue…

August 6, 2021

Review: War Lord, Bernard Cornwell

Rating: 4 out of 5 I’ve read the Saxon Stories up until this point, and though it’s not a series I rush into for…

April 2, 2021

Review: The General in His Labyrinth, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Garcia Marquez’s take on the last days in the life of General Bolivar y Palacios should be a…

February 8, 2021

Review: The Three Paradises, Robert Fabbri

Rating: 4 out of 5 This is a solidly enjoyable fiction that will introduce the reader to many of the diadochi, an era normally…

February 3, 2021

Review: Ryoma! Vol IV, Ryotaro Shiba

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is to my regret that while I bought this the day it came out, I only now took…

October 12, 2020

Review: Galatea, Madeline Miller

Rating: 3 out of 5 It’s clear that Ms Miller has a knack for getting Greek myths right—yet, though this short story spoke to…

October 10, 2020

Review: The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

Rating: 3 out of 5 I really enjoyed some parts of this—especially the descriptions which linked to how Achilles fared after the death of…

September 25, 2020

Review: Siege, Richard Foreman

Rating: 2 out of 5 I found this dull and unimaginative, not to mention basic in its treatment of the Siege of Antioch. While…

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