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Years ago, when Celia Rees found a copy of The Radiation Cookery Book amongst her mother’s effects she knew it would impact ...Read Article

In her novel The Woman before Wallis (Mira, 2020), Bryn Turnbull has written about the life of Thelma Furness (née Morgan), twin sister ...Read Article

With her two earlier novels, Dragon Springs Road and Three Souls, Janie Chang established a reputation for successfully combining historical fiction with magical ...Read Article

Clare Marchant says that she came late to writing. It was only after a career in IT, raising a family and moving to ...Read Article

Anbara Salam, author of two historical novels, Things Bright and Beautiful (Penguin, 2018) and Belladonna (Berkley, 2020), was born to a Scottish mother and a ...Read Article

Charles Rosenberg explains that one of his reasons for writing alternative histories is that “I’ve always been fascinated by the way in ...Read Article

Recent world events may have led historical novelists to consider depicting epidemic disease in their novels.  I found some websites that provide good ...Read Article

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

WRITTEN BY LUCINDA BYATT Raffaello Santi of Urbino died in Rome, 500 years ago, aged just 37. His artistic genius is being celebrated there in ...Read Article

WRITTEN BY MYFANWY COOK The ‘undercroft’ of history and its events, people, & places are revealed through the writing of novelists Molly Aitken, ...Read Article