Aug 1, 2024
What happens when fantasy meets the First World War?
This month, we read 'The Warm Hands of Ghosts' by Katherine
Arden, a novel which follows Canadian nurse Laura Iven as she
searches for her brother behind the lines in the militarised area
known as the ‘Forbidden Zone’. The plot hinges around a mysterious
character called Faland, who runs an elusive hotel with no set
location that men find to drink and relax
In the discussion, we consider the fictional use of historical
characters, whether the war began in 1917, and Chris' new scale for
measuring war-related novels.
Links:
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
(1989-present)
Alice Winn, In
Memoriam (2023)
Robert Graves, Good-bye To All
That (1929)
Mary Borden, The Forbidden
Zone (1929)
L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of
Ingleside (1921)
The Battle of the Somme
(1916)
R. H. Mottram, The Spanish Farm
Trilogy (1930)
Lesley Glaister,
Blasted Things (2020)
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern
Memory (1975)
Owen Davies, A Supernatural War (2018)
Lucifer (2016-2021)
Pierre Purseigle, Mobilisation, Sacrifice et
Citoyenneté. Des communautés locales face à la guerre moderne.
Angleterre – France, 1900-1918 (2013)
Women at
War (2022)
Rachel Duffett, The Stomach for
Fighting (2012)
Kate Macdonald, The first cyborg and First World War bodies as
anti-war propaganda (2016)
Kim Newman, The Bloody Red Baron (1995)
Pat Kelleher, Black Hand Gang (2010)