Next month we are trying something new with the Book Club. We will be discussing the movie La Reine Margot (1994), an adaptation of the Dumas novel that our Book Club has previously read, and discussing movie and TV adaptations of historical novels in general. We are also looking to discuss Versailles, a historical TV series set […]
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 […]