Carla Nayland Historical Fiction

A blog mainly about researching, writing and reading historical fiction, and anything else that interests me. You can read my other articles and novels on my website at www.CarlaNayland.org

23 December, 2016

December recipe: Stollen

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Stollen Stollen is a fruit bread from Germany, traditionally associated with Christmas in the same sort of way as mince pies are a...

30 April, 2016

Kilpeck Church: the South Door

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The small parish church of St Mary and St David at Kilpeck, in Herefordshire, is justly famous for its remarkable Norman carvings. Fo...

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31 March, 2016

Over the Wine-Dark Sea, by H. N. Turteltaub. Book review

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Tom Doherty Associates, 2001. ISBN 0-312-87660-2. 381 pages. Over the Wine-Dark Sea is set in the Eastern Mediterranean in spring ...

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26 February, 2016

The battle of Catraeth: other evidence and interpretation

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The heroic poem Y Gododdin is one of the longest and most famous texts in medieval Welsh. It was written down in the kingdom of Gwynedd...

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Carla: I'm a scientist with an interest in history, particularly the history of Britain in the 5th-10th centuries AD (i.e. between the departure of Rome and the Norman invasion). I write scientific journal articles, for which I get paid, and historical and fantasy fiction, for which I don't. I'm a keen hillwalker, though I live in the flatlands of East Anglia. I'm a devotee of BBC Radio 4, the network that justifies the license fee all by itself. Carla Nayland is a pen name.

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