by Shanescribe | Aug 24, 2021 | Book, Book Review, Historical Fiction, Rome
One of my favorite books growing up was G.A. Henty’s Beric the Briton. Henty was really my first introduction to historical fiction, and I’ve never been the same since. His stories had that spark of adventure, that peril and action, and that virtuous...
by Shanescribe | Feb 3, 2021 | Bond, Book, Book Review, Historical Fiction
THE HOBGOBLINS, a novel on John Bunyan is the latest historical novel by author Douglas Bond. This book tells the amazing life of John Bunyan, renowned theologian and author of the best-selling novel of all time, The Pilgrim’s Progress. I always thought I...
by Shanescribe | Dec 2, 2020 | Book, Book Review, Historical Fiction
One of G. A. Henty’s most popular works of historical fiction, and my own personal favorite is For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem.In vivid detail, For the Temple shows the events leading to the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple...
