Sinead Fitzgibbon's Blog

ON THIS DAY: 2nd September 1666, the outbreak of The Great Fire of London. A brief extract from my book, A Short History of London.

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"It has long been obvious that Martin Amis is almost fatally attracted to the more questionable elements of society: from Money to London Fields to the more-recent Lionel Asbo, Amis’s novels are peppered with debased, degradation-drenched characters, dredged from the moral gutter. In Amis’s world, the more morally bankrupt and psychologically unstable, the better."

The rest of my review of Martin Amis's latest, The Zone of Interest, is available on We Love This Book.

http://www.welovethisbook.com/reviews...

My review of Hack Attack: How The Truth caught Up With Rupert Murdoch by The Guardian‘s investigative journalist, Nick Davies.

I had to work within a limited word count for this review, otherwise I would have said a lot more about it.

In short – this is a very important book. Read it. And boycott red-top tabloids while you’re at it.

http://www.welovethisbook.com/reviews...

I’ve written another piece examining the involvement of the Romantic poets in revolutionary politics for the Wordsworth Trust blog – this time it’s William Wordsworth and the French Revolution

https://wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2014/0...

Follow the link to read my review of 'Forty-One False Starts' by the veteran New Yorker journalist, Janet Malcolm. The piece is published by Gorse, the new Dublin-based literary journal.

http://gorse.ie/forty-one-false-starts/

Today is the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth - or is it?

Here's an extract from my latest, 'William Shakespeare: History In An Hour'.

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An investigation into the Cromwell family tree.

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Who would like to read a sample of the first in my series of short city histories? The opening chapter of 'A Short History of London' is available on my website!

http://sineadfitzgibbon.wordpress.com...

I've written a review of Mary Hollingsworth's latest offering, 'The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty' for the popular History In An Hour blog.

http://www.historyinanhour.com/2014/0...

Follow the link to my article on Percy Bysshe Shelley and Revolutuonary Ireland for the newly-launched Wordsworth Trust blog.

https://wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2014/0...