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New Voices: John Henry Clay, Margaret Skea, Donna Thorland & Alana White
John Henry Clay, Margaret Skea, Donna Thorland and Alana White explain the inspiration for their novels. Donna Thorland’s novel The…
The ghosts of wartime past: Simone St. James’ 1920s Gothic fiction
SJ: An Inquiry into Love and Death is set in post-WWI England, and the war still exerts a strong pull…
Elizabeth and Mary: leadership lost and won
Should we act from the head or from the heart? In Jane Austen’s terms: from sense or sensibility? Two queens…
Sea battles in the 18th and 19th centuries
When I decided to try my hand at writing, one historical period, the climax of the age of fighting sail…
John Saturnall’s sense-world: 17th century food and myth
John Saturnall’s Feast is a sumptuous account of cooking and food lore, as well as a love story set in…
The book and its cover: historical fiction cover art
Pick up an old book, say an Edwardian-era printing. The cover may be plain, cloth-covered board or tooled leather with…
New freedoms, new dangers: Susanna Jones’ Edwardian women
The Edwardian era is the setting for Susanna Jones’ latest novel, the psychological thriller When Nights Were Cold. The protagonists…
Red Pencil: Translating Historical Fiction
Technological innovations give us greater access to historical novels written in an author’s native tongue. Translating those works into English,…
Deborah Swift talks revolutionary Russia and violins with Vanora Bennett
DS: Whilst researching Midnight in St Petersburg you began making a violin as part of your research. Could you tell us…
Robert Low: The Lion Rampant
Yesterday saw the launch of Robert Low’s final book in his ‘making of Scotland’ trilogy. It is too easy to…
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