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 […]
February’s Book Club explored Tracy Chevalier’s The Virgin Blue. Chevalier is most famous for her novel Girl with a Pearl Earring but this debut introduces many of the themes that Chevalier brings into her later work, including a love of history and art. The Virgin Blue is beautifully and carefully described with a lot of […]
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 […]