The Idle Woman
Books • Opera • Art • History
This is a place to indulge enthusiasms and pursue dreams. It embraces art, historical fiction, Baroque opera, Vikings, the Renaissance, Ancient Persia, Italy and a good deal of travel to museums and galleries around the world. And I’m always looking for new recommendations of things to read, see and visit. The best place to begin is the blog, where you’ll find my most recent posts to give a flavour of the site.
Recent posts
- Michelangelo: the last decades (2024)
- Black Wings at Midnight
- An Inadvertent Sabbatical
- The Idle Woman’s 10th Birthday
- Two Tribes (2020): Chris Beckett
- The Black God’s Drums (2018): P. Djèlí Clark
- The Snake Pit (1946): Mary Jane Ward
- Egisto (1643): Francesco Cavalli
- Land of the Living (2018): Georgina Harding
- Bone China (2019): Laura Purcell