Hild Nicola Griffith Farrar, Straus and Giroux First Edition: November 12, 2013 ISBN 978-0-374-28087-1 Seventh century Britain: a time when men’s ambitions were larger than their means, when life was simple and hard and brutal. There was beauty, too, but it rarely lasted. Illiterate kings warred, scheming religions undermined each […]
Fiction Romance Writers of America Golden Heart winner Anne Barton’s next two Regency-set historical romances in the Honeycote family series, again to Selina McLemore at Forever, by Helen Breitwieser at Cornerstone Literary (World). ________________________________________________________ Christine Woodward’s ROGUE TOUCH, to Elisabeth Dyssegaard at Hyperion, by Peter Steinberg at The Steinberg Agency‘s […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.