Wolf Hunt

I was initially excited when I saw that this was based on the Breton lai 'Bisclaveret'. I studied that lai in my first year of university, and I've had cause to go back to it fairly often since, and I rather like it. Perhaps especially because of the inevitable LGBT reading of it: it's homosocial at......more

It's been a while since I read a new Gillian Bradshaw book and I admit I've been rather holding off doing so since she's one of my favorite authors and I have so few left. Unless she publishes a new book (and it's been five years since her last one) I'll be done forever with nothing to do but reread......more

I read this book because it was based on Marie de France's 13th century poem Lai de Bisclavret, and I have to say it was a pretty good retelling. Bradshaw's flaw tends to be an inability to keep the action moving simultaneously with character development, and that was not a concern for me with this......more

Based on Marie de France's 13th century poem Lai de Bisclavret, I had previously taken this out of the library and not read it. Then I read another of Gillian Bradshaw's excellent HF novels and I got it out again and loved it. It is beautifully written and her characterisation is always compelling:......more

This was my second foray into the work of Gillian Bradshaw, whose earlier novel, Island of Ghosts, has become one of my favorite works of historical fiction. Based upon The Lai of Bisclavret, one of a series of poems composed by Marie de France in the twelfth century, The Wolf Hunt follows the s......more