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I’ve had a great year of reading and writing. These are my top historical picks for 2017 with my two stand out favourites taking centre stage. Excited to see what 2018 will bring to my bookshelves. Happy New Year!
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Sharing an interview about Charlatan. Lots about the research. Leslie A. Lindsay By Leslie Lindsay Kate Braithwaite’s CHARLATAN is brimming with intrigue, power, mystique. There’s more. Scandal. Panic. Fortune tellers. Scheming woman. Love affairs. Prisoners in dungeons. It’s dark, intricate plotting, well-developed characters will pull you in and not let you go even when you’re…
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One of my favourite history blogs is History of Royal Women, a great site with features on royal women around the globe (and a series on royal mistresses that I really must get my act together and write something about Madame de Montespan for!) I was very happy to have the chance to ask the…
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In the last month I have been to two bookfairs to sell my novel, Charlatan: the Collingswood Bookfair in New Jersey and the Hockessin Art & Book Fair. Both times I went with members of my local writing group, the Write Group of Kennett Square, PA. As a debut author, I was pretty nervous and…
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Goodreads Book Giveaway Charlatan by Kate Braithwaite Giveaway ends October 14, 2016. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway I’m excited to have just listed my first ever giveaway on Goodreads. I was very easy to set up (well, okay, it didn’t work the first time but I probably pressed the wrong button) and…
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I’m just in the process of reviewing Rose Tremain’s new novel The Gustav Sonata for Bookbrowse and one of the things I loved in it were the references to Heinrich Hoffman’s 1840’s children’s classic Struwwelpeter – also known in English as Shockheaded Peter. It’s the most wonderfully bold illustrations and ten gruesome tales about the…
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Research is a wonderful thing. Looking into late nineteenth century madness (as you do) I came across the autobiography of Anna Agnew, a mother of three who spent 7 years in a lunatic asylum in the 1870s/1880s. In From Under A Cloud, Anna describes her lifelong suicidal tendencies and the sweeping bouts of…
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So my new Work In Progress is set in 1887 when journalist Nellie Bly convinced a judge that she was a lunatic in order to be committed to the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island in New York City. She spent 10 days in the madhouse and wrote about the experience in two lengthy articles published…
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There have been so many books written from the point of view of wives and lovers of famous men in the last couple of years – I even wrote an article on the subject for the Historical Novel Society – but Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea is right up there as one of my favourites.…
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