M.J.’s
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M.J.’s
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Well, he has been currently relegated to second place behind Sir John Arundell, governor of Pendennis during the siege there, as someone has been daft enough to turn me loose on a biography of him! I think my new career is going to be publicist for little-known figures of the Civil Wars. I'd love to do John Lambert, too.
There ain't no party like an S Club party Debby! :-)(S, obviously, standing for Sixteen sixty six, or Seventeenth Sentury, or HopkinSSS... I think you're flying the flag for SupernaturalS though!)
Susanne wrote: "She'd better be! I have been a fan of George Lisle ever since I read Serena's novel "Last Prayers to Heaven" about him. What was done to him and Charles Lucas was pure revenge. No wonder Fairfax wr..."I find Fairfax bemusing in the extreme. Up until - well, till Marston Moor, really - he comes across as a decent, honourable, slightly humourless, earnest gentleman of a certain class. And afterwards, what? Downhill. It's as if up till then he thought "this isn't a real war, it'll all be over bar the shouting in a week, the King will back down and see sense... oh."
And then by Colchester I think - yes, pure vengeance. I think he'd had enough. Sickened by the whole thing and wanting payback.
Rainsborough, though. Rainsborough troubles me. Because he's at all the nastiest parts of the war, like some sort of zealous stormcrow.
Isn't he marvellous?
I imagine Serena will be pleased to hear that :-D
Susanne - have you read my good friend Charles Singleton's book on Montrose? "Famous by my Sword" published by Helion.
Hmm, Evelyn, you mean I get to freeze my tail feathers off in Brugge and you're going to have to go to Jamaica? Pfuh! There is no justice!!!
Sue wrote: "OK I must admit I have not read any Heron or Hellier. Is this the name of the author? Which would you recommend as your favourite book and why? I am always willing to broaden my to be read list :)"The Herons are the main characters in Pamela Belle's first series, and the Helliers are the main characters in the second - the Wintercombe series. I prefer The Moon In The Water and the Chains Of Fate - the Herons. Alison prefers the Wintercombe books!
Paul wrote: "You'll come to love the American one when I write book 5 or 6 in my saga :-)" There is a vicious rumour that the grandchildren of one red-haired Lancashire Dissenter boy may have ended up in America.... heaven help the Revolution if the Babbitt family was involved, eh?
Splendid, thank you! I've a research trip to Brugge coming up in February to enquire after the activities of one Master William Scot :-D
Ohhhh Anna now you have touched me on a nerve I love The King's General, but I loathe Richard Grenville with an unquenchable passion. If LauraLaura Quigley is around she can add one or two choice things about him!
I think you might have to pop over to my blog later this year :-D does Affie Behn turn up in your books too?
OK I'll bite, I much preferred the Heron books to the Wintercombe books.I thought Francis and Thomazine were much more believable and engaging as a couple than Nick and Silence (there were times when I thought Nick was a grade 1 ass - never a desirable trait in a hero, I feel!)
I liked "Alethea" but not as much as I thought I would; the end felt rushed.
I wasn't keen on "Treason's Gift" at all, and of all PB's heroes and heroines I actively disliked Alex and Louise. I had a good deal of fondness for Rachel and I thought she was brushed out far too quickly.
But then, I like my romantic heroes blonde, enigmatic and Parliamentarian, so I would say that, wouldn't I? :-D
What's coming out this year? What have we got to look forward to? Tell us about the good stuff!
I'm MJ - Mel, to my friends, and I do not think I look much like Elizabeth Cromwell but..I think I fell in love with the period as a result of two authors: Pamela Belle, and The Moon In The Water book (yes, I am a little bit in love with Francis Heron, but he has to share me with Thomas Fairfax) and Rosemary Sutcliff.
And then I'm from Lancashire, and my family is Bolton-bred. And you can't not be from the Geneva of the North and not be a bit fierce for Parliiament, can you?
