Historical Fiction Fans Mugs

Robinson Crusoe on the phone - "Big job. No problem, it'll be done by Friday."

Rape of the Lock- The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles

"The Three Wise Men followed a star...wasn't their GPS working?"

Newman Noggs leaves the ladies in the empty house

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Topsy Taking Liberties with Miss Ophelia's Wardrobe

"Before it's too late, Dad, I want to take the opportunity to say 'I love you.'"

What is it about BBC One's reboot of Poldark which attracts so many viewers?"

'Wild Bill Hiccup: Would-be scourge of the Wild West...'

Sherwood forest. Private. Keep out.

The locksmith dressing for parade

Missing and dreaming

A chance meeting

A gracious invitation

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'

"At least they're no longer talking about the pandemic."

Daughters on the beach

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

Modern Major General

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

Next in Lion

"Shall I let them breathe."

Captain Hook getting his hook stuck in the rail, again

About the curriculum. The contemporary novel from Austen to Dickens...

Tony Weller ejects Mr. Stiggins

Gulliver's other travels.

Redlaw and the Phantom

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

"Say! While I'm off in the Holy Land, why don't you find a little crusade of some kind that interests you?"

"If we're musketeers, why can't we just shoot people? with muskets?"

Franz Kafka

Illustration for 'The Notting Hill Mystery'. (woman pulled out of the river).

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Miggs's short-lived joy