I'd like to broaden my horizons by getting a better understanding of life in different cultures and time periods. Please recommend great books or films (fiction or non-fiction) which paint a broad, immersive, reasonably accurate picture of a place and time. [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2008 - 29 answers
I'm looking for any historical or anthropological studies of fiction. Any ideas? [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2007 - 14 answers 
I am looking for well regarded books/scholarly papers about writing. Most specifically in the areas of Nonfiction (the essay style of article writing) and Children's Fiction (for a young adult audience).
Any tips? Go as far and broad as you can. I'll be off to the British library tomorrow, so the sky is the limit. [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2007 - 6 answers
I need ideas for an alternate history novel that I am thinking of writing. What changes history more, ideas or actions? [more inside]
posted on Aug 9, 2006 - 39 answers
The Protagonist: What can you tell me? [more inside]
posted on Jun 8, 2006 - 17 answers
The Great Books: where should I start? I seek timeless wisdom. [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2006 - 74 answers
What are your favorite books about submarines? [more inside]
posted on Dec 16, 2005 - 19 answers
Help me find alternative history books [more inside]
posted on Dec 14, 2005 - 30 answers
NovelFilter: I just finished Romola, by Eliot, and didn't love it, but want to learn more about Florence in the era--a very interesting time, to put it mildly--with the Medicis, Savanarola, etc. Any good novels or non-boring non-fiction on Florence in the late 1400s-early 1500s?
posted on Mar 18, 2005 - 11 answers
I'm trying to learn about the Edwardian era especially (but not exclusively) in England, Ireland, and Canada. What excellent materials (fiction and non-fiction books, movies, websites, etc.) have you read and seen about this period?
posted on Mar 1, 2005 - 17 answers
What are your favourite historical fiction novels? [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2004 - 47 answers
As a lay...very lay...student of Roman Republic and Empire, and anticipating the upcoming HBO/BBC series Rome with relish, I'm reading everything I can get my hands on about both Republic and Empire. Currently I'm reading an abridgement of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire I just inherited. What next? [insert Latin for "more inside" here].
posted on Sep 2, 2004 - 19 answers
