Matt Haig’s How To Stop Time is deliberately different to any books we have read so far. Previously, authors like Plaidy have given us very straight-forward takes on the historical novel, to the point that we are able to learn our history from them. Haig’s work is less a historical novel and more science-fiction. The […]
In March, our Book Club read The Huguenots by Geoffrey Treasure. Breaking away from reading historical fiction, we got stuck into this in-depth, non-fiction account of the Huguenot experience in France across two centuries. We wanted to have a deeper understanding of political and religious landscape shaping the fiction that we had already been reading, […]
January’s Book Club pick was Jean Plaidy’s Queen Jezebel. A lighter read than our previous book (Dumas’ La Reine Margo), Plaidy was also more widely read by our members. One of the group, Lesley, told us: “I got all my history from Jean Plaidy”. It is hardly a surprise, with Plaidy being one of the […]
As a new member of staff at the Huguenot Museum, it was timely that they had just started up a new Book Club. As the Book Club is made up of both museum staff and volunteers, as well as people who are completely new to the museum, it was a perfect chance to get to […]