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Katherine Mezzacappa
@katmezzacappa.bsky.social
Irish historical novelist living in Italy, published by Fairlight (Oxford), Histria (LV) and (to come) Stairwell (York). Writes too as Katie Hutton (Zaffre Books) and Kate Zarrelli (Romaunce). Rep'd by Annette Green Authors' Agency. katherinemezzacappa.com
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It being a wet and horrible day, I decided to cheer myself up. I started in 2016 with a short story in Ireland's Own #historicalfiction #romance #womensfiction @zaffrebooks.bsky.social @romaunce.bsky.social #Fairlight I'd to take them all down afterwards as they are on the kittens' Parkour route.
My #bookreview of @annaluciaauthor.bsky.social's Broken Madonna #historicalfiction #italia for @histnovsoc.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/brok... 'a lyrical, elegiac and empathetic portrait of a small-town community and a vanished way of life'
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My #bookreview of John Banville's Venetian Vespers @faberbooks.bsky.social for @histnovsoc.bsky.social 'This tour de force of a novel has all the creeping menace of The Turn of the Screw' #historicalfiction #irishwriting historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/vene...
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
October 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Oh what a great day this is! The Maiden of Florence has made the last 12 on the @historia-hwa.bsky.social Gold Crown award #longlist! #historicalfiction #renaissance #Firenze @fairlightbooks.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM

A perfect day... end of season at the beach, with a great book:
@catherinekullmann.bsky.social's latest, #LordFredericksReturn, elegantly written #Regency #historicalfiction #bookrecommendation
September 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Thirty years ago today (well, in about an hour's time, to be exact). I have been so lucky. #weddinganniversary
August 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Feast day of St Rose of Lima, holding the baby in this altarpiece by Giambattista Tiepolo, in the church of the Gesuati, on the Zattere, in my most loved city #Venezia She's with other Dominican saints, Catherine of Siena (left) and Agnes of Montepulciano (seated) #Italianart #rococo
August 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The #feastday of San Rocco (Roch), invoked against the plague since the 14C; he caught it nursing victims. Painted by Giovanni Santi (father of Raphael) showing the plague sore on his leg and by Bernardo Strozzi with the dog who brought him food, and Sebastian, another plague saint #italianart
August 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Oh yes, I am pleased about this! #exam #German @edinburghcollege.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My #bookreview of @elodieharper.bsky.social's Boudicca's daughter for @histnovsoc.bsky.social @apollopublishers.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/boud... #historicalfiction 'a compelling account of what happens in the red mist of vendetta'
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
My #bookreview of Timothy Crellin's The Land of the Living (Green Place Books) @histnovsoc.bsky.social #historicalfiction #sicilia #cefalu 'sensitivity,lyricism and clear-eyed avoidance of folklorism and sentimentality.' historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-...
August 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
My #bookreview of @clarkegeorgina1.bsky.social's The Viper in the Nest (Verve Books) for @histnovsoc.bsky.social #historicalfiction #GeorgianLondon @historia-hwa.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/vipe... 'teems with period details; a Hogarth painting on the page'
August 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
My #bookreview of Sheena Kalayil's The Others @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social for @histnovsoc.bsky.social #historicalfiction #Berlin: 'a love story of almost unbearable tenderness, in the cold climate of a country it is nearly impossible to escape from.' historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-...
August 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My #bookreview of David Park's Ghost Wedding for @histnovsoc.bsky.social #historicalfiction #Belfast #Irishwriting 'This extraordinary novel will remain long in the memory, its characters always present, just out of sight.' @oneworldbooks.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/ghos...
August 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Want to present at the 2026 @histnovsoc.bsky.social conference in #Maynooth #Ireland? Here's how: hns2026.com/call-for-par... #historicalfiction #writingcommunity please repost
May 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Happy Europe Day! Today is the anniversary of the signing of the #schumandeclaration in 1950, laying the foundations for what was to become the #EuropeanUnion
May 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
If you are in Florence and free on the morning of 7th June, I'm running a #writingworkshop with the #FlorenceLiterarySociety on how to write immersive and convincing #historicalfiction. Not a member? Join on the door, for a great all-year-round programme www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-hi...
May 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Lovely #bookreview of #theballadofmarykearney from #historicalnovelsRUS 'the antagonist is the class and religious servitude that oppressed women and left them in bondage, putting Mary into an untenable situation... accurate historically...you'll be rewarded.' historicalnovelsrus.com/2025/05/02/m...
May 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Come and hear me at the Secret Bookshelf, @jozebwrites.bsky.social Carrickfergus next month, on panel with Malachi O'Doherty and David Hume www.eventbrite.ie/e/history-wh... discussing 'History - what do you do with it?' #irishwritersunion #historicalfiction #irishhistory #history
May 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
My #bookreview of Laurent Binet's Perspectives: 'an enthralling Renaissance adventure told entirely through letters. Their writers, of course, do not always tell a consistent story to all their correspondents.' #historicalfiction
@histnovsoc.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/pers...
May 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
My #bookreview of Edward Marston's Mystery at the Station Hotel @histnovsoc.bsky.social historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/myst... #historicalfiction #railway 'does what it says on the cosy-crime tin, with a cast of comfortingly stereotypical characters.' @allisonandbusby.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM