All posts tagged "Historical"
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847Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Woman from Saint Germain, by J R Lonie
A celebrated writer stranded in Paris, and an enigmatic foreigner with a dangerous secret, flee Nazi-controlled Austria in 1941. Only the war could bring them together.
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596EntertainmentFilm Review: Cold War
Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski's post WW II love story, inspired by his own parents.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Persecution of the Templars, by Alain Demurger
A well-researched history of the downfall and persecution of the mysterious Knights Templar from 1305 to the burning at the stake of its leaders in 1314.
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610Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Angel’s Mark, by S W Perry
In 1590, a time when Queen Elizabeth I’s rule is on shaky ground and Catholicism is an underground practice, Nicholas Shelby, physician, becomes involved in the case of a young boy who has been murdered, mutilated and thrown into the river.
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336Books & LiteratureBook Review: A Necessary Murder, by MJ Tjia
Private investigator and deliciously alluring courtesan Heloise Chancey poses as a nursemaid to investigate the murder of two members of the Lovejoy family in Victorian London.
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477Books & LiteratureBook Review: Imperial Tea Party, by Frances Welch
An exploration of the British and Russian royal families and their politics from 1894 to the Russian Revolution of 1917, using diary entries, headlines of the day, and letters written by courtiers and extended family.
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365Books & LiteratureBook Review: Fatal Inheritance, by Rachel Rhys
Eve Forrester escapes a loveless marriage in 1948 and journeys to the French Riviera after a mysterious bequest is left in her name but, while she rubs shoulders with the rich and famous, rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge. Rivals who want her out of the way.
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435Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Cicero Series 1, by Big Finish
An epic full cast audio drama about famed Roman lawyer, politician and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (circa 63BCE) who influenced so many with his writings, covering his early victories in the law courts and subsequent first marriage and retreat into Athens.
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479Books & LiteratureAudiobook Review: ATA Girl, by Big Finish
A dramatic re-telling of (largely fictional) events involving the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) who piloted new planes to the airfields for the British Army in World War 2 for the men to take into battle.
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480Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Last Train, by Sue Lawrence
In 1879 Scotland, Ann Craig watches as her husband's train crosses the Tay Bridge just as it collapses. In 2015, Fiona Craig wakes to find that her husband has emptied their bank account and disappeared. Both are driven to search for their missing husbands.
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310Books & LiteratureBook Review: Rowland Sinclair Mysteries Book 8: A Dangerous Language, by Sulari Gentill
A Communist sympathiser is murdered and Rowland Sinclair & friends try to help a peace activist get to Melbourne to warn of the growing Nazi threat in Europe.
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292Books & LiteratureBook Review: Rowland Sinclair Mysteries Book 5: Gentlemen Formerly Dressed, by Sulari Gentill
Rowland Sinclair and his friends have escaped to London where they determine to warn British politicians about the Nazi menace but murder once again comes calling.
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311Books & LiteratureBook Review: Rowland Sinclair Mysteries Book 3: Miles off Course, by Sulari Gentill
When Wiradjuri man Harry Simpson goes missing, Rowland Sinclair find himself in the High Country searching for him and gets caught up in a communist plot.
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320Books & LiteratureBook Review: She Be Damned, by M J Tjia
A courtesan-come-private-detective in Victorian times is hired to find a missing young girl in a time when prostitutes are being murdered and mutilated.
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732Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Traitor’s Girl, by Christine Wells
After receiving a desperate phone call from her long-lost grandmother, a woman flies to England to visit her in the Cotswolds only to find she's gone missing.
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404Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller, by Carol Baxter
A well-researched biography of Australian Jessie Maude Beveridge, AKA 'Chubbie', who, in 1928, set a record for the longest flight ever by a woman.
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255Film & TVFilm Review: Hidden Figures
The true story of three female mathematicians in 1961 who face racism and misogyny when they join the team trying to put an American into space.
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1.2KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Kapunda Ghost Crime Tour
A two-hour walking tour of Kapunda, looking at hauntings and history at the North Kapunda Hotel (Australia's most haunted hotel) and the surrounding area.
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470Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Midnight Watch, by David Dyer
A fictional investigation based on the real life facts around the sinking of the Titanic and the crew of the SS California nearby who ignored the distress call.
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382Books & LiteratureBook Review: Beyond the Orchard, by Anna Romer
After receiving a letter from her estranged grandfather, a woman leaves behind her life in London to return to confront what, and who, she ran away from.
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