Tag Archives: historical fiction

Review: Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Gabriella West

Occasionally, I will pick up a library book (and I vow to do this more, post-pandemic). I wanted to review a striking, mostly forgotten novel by 20th-century English author Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), whose long life spanned almost a century … Continue reading →

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‘A Knight’s Tale: Montargis’ on Preorder Now (with Excerpt)!

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Gabriella West

My new book, the follow-up to A Knight’s Tale: Kenilworth, is now on preorder on Amazon.com for $2.99. As it’s set in medieval France in the late thirteenth century, I have been enjoying the research… particularly into foods of the … Continue reading →

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A Jumbled Year

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Gabriella West

What a jumble this year has been! We end the year with Doug Jones‘s historic win in Alabama (yay) and the GOP Tax Bill passing the House and Senate (grrr). Robert Mueller will either save us or be ignominiously fired by … Continue reading →