What I’m Reading: “Hild” by Nicola Griffith

Last month I admitted that next to speculative fiction, the literary “genre” I like best is historical (and that I include both fiction and non fiction under that umbrella.)

Right now I’m reading another historical novel, Nicola Griffiths’ Hild—and so far, at around three quarters of the way through, I am absolutely loving it. I feel it is one of the best historical novels I have read in quite some time, not even excepting Hilary Mantel’s Booker prize-winning, Wolf Hall. (Which means I am spoi...