Talk:Kirstie's Witnesses

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I've not read this book, so don't really know, but I've always been under the impression it was factual, not fiction. Have I been misinformed?

Ghostrider 13:21, 1 July 2007 (MDT)

It's probably what you call faction these days, though that has unfortunate connotations ... based on a true story ... bit wie a lokk a'imagination baalt in .... Ex-Isle

Yes, based on fact
Heimdal 13:40, 1 July 2007 (MDT)

Lost the link but there is one critic available in the net dealing a lot about the questions "what is factual?" "what is fiction?" From that I would classify it as a "historic novel", well in the way we use that term in German literature and quite similar the the "historic novels" of an Eric Linklater when he wrote about "The Prince in the Heather" ... that's to say a novel based in proper research of the historical facts although not every detail must match the historic situation ... and not in that new fashioned style when an American like D Gabaldon writes her fantasy stories about the Jacobean time and what she calls herself historic novels ... ;-) Islandhopper 16:34, 1 July 2007 (MDT)

Possibly there's a need to create a seperate fact/fiction sub-category for something like this then? As it doesn't really fit too well in to either a pure fact or pure fiction classification.

Would I be right in thinking at least one of J.W. Irvine's books is also written in the same style? Unfortunately I can no longer recall a title, I just seem to recall something being said at the time one of his was published.

Ghostrider 18:39, 1 July 2007 (MDT)

I think you may be right Ghostrider, can't remember which one. Although I know Johnie Graham's 'Shadowed Valley', is another which is a novel, based on fact.
Robbie 20:57, 1 July 2007 (MDT)