Neither a sacrament nor a threat to civilization. An interview with novelist Richard Blake Richard Blake Interviewed by Scott De Buitléir of Eile Magazine March 2014 You’re a historical novelist, which confuses some people when they come across it first! What does it mean, and how do you blend fact and fiction together through it? As a specific genre, the historical novel is only about two centuries old. Historical fiction in the wider sense, though, is at least as old as the written word. The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Homeric poems, the narrative books of More…