All Visible Things is set in the world of Leonardo da Vinci, probably the greatest all-round genius to ever live. Here are ten true things about Leonardo that appear in the novel that may surprise you. There is a strong probability that Leonardo was an animal-loving vegetarian.Leonardo was strikingly handsome and a rather vain dandy.He … Continue reading 10 Things About LdV
Month: August 2020
FACT OR FICTION? ACCURACY IN HISTORICAL FICTION
Readers of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and its sequels know that however much the author has used her creative skills to fill in the many holes in our knowledge of Thomas Cromwell, she will have taken no liberties with the facts that are available to historians. I’m pretty confident that Ms Mantel could authoritatively lecture … Continue reading FACT OR FICTION? ACCURACY IN HISTORICAL FICTION
RESEARCHING FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
Doing the research is one of the chief pleasures of writing historic fiction. There’s nothing like having an excuse to spend hours immersed in the everyday lives of artisans in Tudor England, artists’ models in Renaissance Florence, minor officials in the court of Louis XIV or whatever place and period you have chosen as your … Continue reading RESEARCHING FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
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