Tag Archives: Richard III

Round-up of Random Recent Reads

Posted on July 7, 2014 by forwardtranslations

Just a few musings on books I’ve read but been too distracted to review properly: The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker, tr. David Colmer (Vintage). This won the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It’s about a Dutch woman living in Wales … Continue reading →

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History, Fiction and Richard III, Part 2… Confessions of a Conflicted Ricardian

Posted on February 16, 2013 by forwardtranslations

In my last post, I wrote about how reading Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time at an impressionable age left me convinced of Richard’s innocence etc. etc. I also mentioned that other people seemed to be of the opinion that … Continue reading →

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History, Fiction and Richard III, Part 1: The Daughter of Time

Posted on February 10, 2013 by forwardtranslations

Between getting over a bout of flu and catching up on all my work it’s going to be tricky to find time for the blog for a while, but my brain is whirling with ideas for posts on a certain … Continue reading →

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