Crazy about… George MacDonald Fraser Specifically the Flashman books, Fraser’s masterwork. The Flashman books are not romances. They are adventures. If the Lymond Chronicles can be described as the story of a Tudor mercenary, then the Flashman books are the story of a Victorian soldier. The books purport to be a series of “packets discovered [...]

At one point in my life, I decided to give up working for a while and have babies with my husband. That entailed selling my house in Banbury, moving up to Manchester and changing all the boring legal stuff, house titles, insurance documents. You get the picture. Tedious stuff. That was when I discovered Dorothy [...]

From our ducktastic friend, Lynne Connolly:  Georgette Heyer There are three writers whose complete works are permanently on my TBR shelf, and always will be. Not the classics, but writers I discovered all by myself and then followed slavishly until they died. Yes, sadly, they’re all dead. So I’ll start with the one who died [...]