‘Her taste exact for perfect fact amounts to a disease’ W.S. Gilbert (The Mikado) I hope that my novels are historically accurate and that, by and large, the facts within them are correct. I regret to say however that I have spotted one or two small mistakes in my first published novel, Small Acts of […]
I have been trying to tidy up the manuscript of my work in progress, Fortune’s Price, a novel which can be read alone, but which follows on from Small Acts of Kindness, a tale of the first Russian revolution that was published in November last year. Towards the end of the first part of the […]
Alexander Mikhailovich Murav’ev (1802-1853) Lithograph. (1822) Piotr Feodorovich Sokolov (1791- 1848) There can be problems when a writer tries to combine an engaging plot with historical truth. This can be particularly true when it comes to depicting characters who are ‘real’ people. Historical novels vary widely in their historical accuracy, ranging from books that are […]