Why historical fiction is hard: Part 1

Aerial shot of Los Marinos aerodrome outside Barcelona, 1929

(First in a series of occasional rants about how confounding this genre can be.) …wherein our author discovers that even what should be easy is not easy. Our heroine Kate, an aviatrix, lands in the Barcelona of 1936. (Yes, there’s a war on.) I figured this would be easy — it’s called Barcelona Airport, she […]