History – Allison M. Azulay

DAN BROWN

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:19 January 2021
Post category:Featured Author History Readers Thrillers and Suspense

I've featured Dan Brown's work before, but The Lost Symbol bears special consideration. Even the cover hints at the complex layers of symbols and meanings found throughout the story: When…

Heroines

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:20 October 2020
Post category:Adventure Fantasy General Fiction History Horror Mystery Readers Romance Science Fiction Thrillers and Suspense Western Women's Fiction Writers

Once upon a time women in novels were frail creatures always in need of rescuing, or silly dolts who could not be expected to know the time of day, or…

Robert Harris

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:7 July 2020
Post category:Featured Author General Fiction History Readers Writers

Pompeii is an historical novel through which the reader lives the last days of that doomed city of luxury and its neighbouring community, Herculaneum. The signs are there: Wells and…

Culloden

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:15 April 2020
Post category:History Opinion Readers Special Occasion Writers

To paraphrase a famous saying: "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." To people of Scottish descent and especially Highlanders, the name "Culloden" still evokes…

Jennifer Robson

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:3 March 2020
Post category:Featured Author General Fiction History Readers Romance Women's Fiction

Well researched is the first description that comes to mind pertaining to my introduction to Jennifer Robson's writing: Somewhere in France, a story of men and women working behind the…

Diana Gabaldon

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:7 January 2020
Post category:Adventure Featured Author General Fiction History Readers Women's Fiction Writers

Given the popularity of the television series, the fanatical followers in groups like "Outlanders in Ontario," "Outmander," and many more, one would think that everyone on the planet is familiar…

Nigel Tranter

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:19 December 2019
Post category:Adventure Featured Author History Readers Writers

Nigel Tranter makes Scottish history so interesting you wish his books had been part of the school curriculum. In The Clansman, he explores the persona of Roy Roy and the…

Jack Whyte

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:26 November 2019
Post category:Featured Author General Fiction History Readers Writers

From Scotland and now living in Canada, Jack Whyte writes fictionalized accounts of historical events and thereby brings long-dead figures to life. In Uther, he describes a realistic Camulod (Camelot)…

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I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST: that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.” He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular. And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly. To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess. Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence. At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event? Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals