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New Voices: Joanna Campbell Slan, Charlotte Betts, Liz Harris & Maryanne O’Hara
Joanna Campbell Slan, Charlotte Betts, Liz Harris, and Maryanne O’Hara describe the seeds of inspiration that blossomed into their novels.…
Happy 15th Birthday, HNS!
The Society celebrates 15 years It seems fitting to compile our 15th anniversary feature just after our largest and most…
A Masterclass in Character: Theresa Breslin’s Spy for the Queen of Scots
Author of numerous award-winning books for children and young adults, including the historical novels The Nostradamus Prophecy, Remembrance, The Medici…
Red Pencil: Fred Stemme’s The Lieutenant’s Whistle
Revision, revision, revision Cindy Vallar analyzes the work behind polished final manuscripts. In this issue, she profiles Fred Stemme’s The…
Here Be Dragons…And Forgotten Books
Carlos Ruiz Zafón is Spain’s most successful literary export. An urban history buff, composer, scriptwriter, dragon collector, and comic devotee,…
Once upon a Longship: An Interview with Giles Kristian
LB: What made you first put pen to paper? GK: The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell was so inspiring to…
Historically Speaking: A Retrospective on Georgette Heyer
Jennifer Kloester explores the novels of best-selling author Georgette Heyer In February 1920 a teenage girl accompanied her family to…
Philippa Gregory’s passionate defence of the historical novel
On Saturday 29th September, Philippa Gregory delivered a fabulous opening address at our London conference. She discussed, among many other…
The Triumph of Hildegard von Bingen
Born in the lush green Rhineland in present day Germany, Hildegard (1098–1179) was a Benedictine abbess and polymath. She founded…
Remembering HNSLondon12
For so long we were anticipating HNSLondon12, and then it all arrived in a mad, wonderful, exhausting rush, and now…
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