Scandalous Places - Vaux-le-Vicomte

Kaleen Koen's new novel BEFORE VERSAILLES, is as much about Nicolas Fouquet as it is about Louis XIV.  One of the places mentioned in th...

Scandalous Book Review: Before Versailles

Title:  Before Versailles Author:  Karleen Koen Pub. Date: June 28, 2011 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Format: Hardcover, 480pp Verdict...

Dame Alice Kyteler (1280 - 1324?)

The Magic Circle, John William Waterhouse (1886) One of the first witchcraft trials in Ireland involved a woman named Dame Alice Kyteler. He...

The Historical Novel Society Conference

This weekend I had the great fortune to attend the 4th Historical Novel Society conference in North America. The Historical Novel Society ha...

The Princess and the Gangster - Fact or Fiction?

Princess Margaret and John Bindon photographed on Mustique A few months ago, I watched a little British film called The Bank Job. The film i...

Don't Mess with Messalina!

Messalina holding her son Britannicus, Louvre The Roman Empire may have produced some of the most cruelly ambitious women in history. But on...

Scandalous Book of the Month: The Churchills in Love and War

Title:  THE CHURCHILLS IN LOVE AND WAR Author:  Mary S. Lovell Hardcover: 624 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1St Edition editi...