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... on this period, Farewell My Concubine was a good one and I liked The Red Violin parts as well. I have also added Hill's The Beacon and The Woman In Black and hope they're as scary as I imagine. I also have been enjoying the BC cabin lifestyle as I got to spend a week in one on Shushwap Lak ...
So are all her books (including The Beacon) horror ones? Not my thing... I'm such a wuss that I had nightmares after Flash Gordon when I was about 18!
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but one of my favourites is is Gillian Bradshaw's The Beacon at Alexandria. Also worth reading is Bradshaw's Island of Ghosts. Must add my recommendation of Kay, especially Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan.
Walking Through the Fire by Laurel Lee An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough The Beacon at Alexandria by Gillian Bradshaw A Midwife's Tale - The Life of Martha Ballard, 1795-1812 by Laurel Ulrich For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez
I loved the two Gillian Bradshaw books I read, The Sand-Reckoner (about Archimedes) and The Beacon at Alexandria (about a girl who runs away from home and disguises herself as a eunuch to become a doctor). I also agree with the Mary Renault recommendation, though The King Must Die ...
... it's otherwise unlikely that I'd be able to list any. So, my top 5 are: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Beacon at Alexandria by Gillian Bradshaw Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Breaking of Northwall by Paul O ...
Gillian Bradshaw has written a lot of books set in the ancient world. In particular, The Beacon at Alexandria takes place in the later Roman Empire, and is a really good book too.
