Beneath a Marble SkyAmazon linkThe author of this book has contacted me and offered to do a live chat session with BookTalk members. Yes, it's a fiction book, but it is historical fiction, AND it has received excellent reviews. Anyone interested?Chris

Here is a pdf file of Chapter 1

Several names come to mind, then I crossed off several who are deceased or out of print. I'm left with:Michael Curtis Ford. Ford is a banker who has since become a full time writer. He started his fiction career with a novel on Xenophon's Anabasis, and continue with a book on Julian the Apostate, followed by a work on Mithradates and has a forthcoming novel on Attilla.www.amazon.com/exec/obido...03-2695204Jeffrey Shaara. His most recent book "To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War" comes as his 6th book, 2 Civil War, 1 Mexican War, and two Revolutionary War novels. His father wrote the book that became the movie Gettysburg.www.amazon.com/exec/obido...Y%20SHAARAWilliam Martin. I encountered him through the book Annapolis, but he has written several other historical novels including Citizen Washington, Back Bay and Harvard Yard.www.amazon.com/exec/obido...8&v=glance ...[T]o ignore the classics is ultimately to weaken the very foundations of our society. - James Atlas, Book Wars: What it Takes to be Educated in America

PCYou must have thought I was asking for historical fiction suggestions. I was actually sharing the name of a historical fiction book, and seeing if anyone would be interested in a live chat with the author.We will soon have a database of fiction books too, so save those fiction suggestions. I'm sure the entire community will appreciate them. I just read the first 6 pages of Chapter One and I'm hooked. That's why I'm posting again tonight. Read the above linked PDF file folks. This book is going to be fascinating.Chris

My mistake. ...[T]o ignore the classics is ultimately to weaken the very foundations of our society. - James Atlas, Book Wars: What it Takes to be Educated in America

Trish,

If you have found this posting then you have become an adept at navigating Booktalk.
I love historical novels but unfortunately this seems to be a genre that attract very few quality writers.

About the Tudor era, I strongly recommend Dissolution by C.J Sansom.


I'll ad three novels at the top of my list of favourites:

1- The Far Pavillions, by M M Kaye (about British India, my favourite h n ever).

2- The pillars of the earth, by Ken Follett ( Cathedrals in England in the Middle Ages)

3-[/i] Regards from a dead princess by Kenize Mourad (the story starts with the end of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul).
I read it in French and somehow it has stayed with me ever since. The sequel is also very good.

Back to your original question, Chris -- I have this book on my shelf, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. It definitely intrigued me though.

I'd be game, although I note that the request came ages ago -- authors have to do a lot of their own marketing and publicity now, and some come up with a lot of creative ideas.