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An old story can experience new life when told from a different perspective – and the Trojan War is a very old story. Perhaps ...Read Article

Based on years of academic research, Joost Douma’s novel Betrayal of a Republic: Memoirs of a Roman Matrona (Histria Books, 2020) tells the ...Read Article

WRITTEN BY SARAH BOWER There is money in Ben Hopkins’ family, academically speaking at least. His grandfather was an economic historian and his ...Read Article

Throughout her life Coco Chanel lied about her upbringing. Judithe Little, author of The Chanel Sisters (Graydon House, 2020), had always imagined Coco as “...Read Article

Jonelle Patrick, author of The Last Tea Bowl Thief (Street Books, October 2020), a time slip novel that moves between modern and 18th-century Japan, ...Read Article

Everyone is reaching exhaustion point over dealing with Covid-19, but despite that, I want to offer the promised continuation of the series on ...Read Article

The HNS congratulates our author members on their new releases! If you’ve written a historical novel or nonfiction work published (or to ...Read Article

WRITTEN BY WANDA WYPORSKA Marguerite Poland is a multi-award winning South African author, with a fine range of books for children, novels (including ...Read Article

WRITTEN BY BETHANY LATHAM If we played word association and I said “Australia’s colonial period,” most responses might be “convict.” Yet there ...Read Article

WRITTEN BY MISTY URBAN Much of Philippa Gregory’s royal fiction explores the ways women survive challenges and claim power. In the TV ...Read Article