I like Jude Morgan as an author, especially his novel 'Passion', which for my money has the best fictional presentation of both Byron and Mary Shelley. (The other Romantics in it, both female and male, are very well drawn, too.) So I knew he could credibly write a) legendary writers without giving them embarassing dialogue, and b) convey ( Read more... )

Two reviews written a while ago, which I hadn't gotten around to posting yet, about two historical novels by the same author I enjoyed a lot, set in two very different periods.

( Restoration, Stuart family drama, and a first person narrative )