Podcast: Karen Brooks on Bringing History to Life

Podcast: Karen Brooks on Bringing History to Life

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Karen Brooks talks to Cheryl about her love of history and how she brought London’s Restoration theatre to life in her latest novel, The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson.

About the author:

Karen Brooks is the author of fourteen books – historical fiction, historical fantasy, YA fantasy, and one non-fiction. She was an academic for over 20 years, a newspaper columnist and social commentator. She has a Ph.D. in English/Cultural Studies and has published internationally on all things popular culture, education and social psychology. An award-winning teacher, she’s taught throughout Australia and in The Netherlands and keynoted at many education conferences. Nowadays, she finds greatest contentment studying history and writing, and helping her husband in his Brewstillery, Captain Bligh’s.

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                      Publisher details

                      The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson
                      Author
                      Karen Brooks
                      Publisher
                      HQ Fiction
                      Genre
                      Fiction
                      Released
                      05 July, 2023
                      ISBN
                      9781867227229

                      Synopsis

                      From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre, where we are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn, now a feminist icon then an anomaly, who gravitated to the stage - a place where artifice and disguise are second nature and accommodates those who do not fit in.
                      Karen Brooks
                      About the author

                      Karen Brooks

                      Karen Brooks is the author of fourteen books - historical fiction, historical fantasy, YA fantasy, and one non-fiction. She was an academic for over 20 years, a newspaper columnist and social commentator. She has a Ph.D. in English/Cultural Studies and has published internationally on all things popular culture, education and social psychology. An award-winning teacher, she's taught throughout Australia and in The Netherlands and keynoted at many education conferences. Nowadays, she finds greatest contentment studying history and writing, and helping her husband in his Brewstillery, Captain Bligh's.She shares a beautiful stone house in Hobart, Tasmania, built in 1868, with her husband, adorable dogs and cats, and shelves brimming with books.

                      Books by Karen Brooks

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