Articles
Original features from our print magazines.
Bookselling in the field
The Festival of History is English Heritage’s flagship event of the year. Staged in acres of fields outside Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire, ...Read Article
Ask an Agent: Jennifer Weltz
William Dietrich, NY Times bestselling author and Pulitzer-winning journalist, has given us permission to post this piece from his blog about San Diego ...Read Article
The Torch of God
First published in the Winter 2009 edition of Solander magazine – copyright remains with the author. David has a website and blog, and we reviewed ...Read Article
More than a Matter of Words
Lucinda Byatt looks at four Italian historical novels in translation. Walter Scott is generally regarded as the “inventor” of the historical novel, but ...Read Article
The Enduring Specimen
First published in the May 2009 edition of Solander magazine – copyright remains with the author. Jorge Contreras is currently a professor of law in ...Read Article
Sally Zigmond’s Chasing Angels
When Sally Zigmond’s husband took up mountaineering, she began immersing herself in the history of the pastime. While scanning the shelves in ...Read Article
Making the Leap from Fact to Fiction
Popular historian Alison Weir talks to Lucinda Byatt about her first historical novel. Alison Weir is a name that will be familiar to ...Read Article
New Zealand Historical Fiction’s Coming of Age
Historical novel writing can be measured and weighed by the age of a country. The first historical writings in New Zealand can be ...Read Article
Why Anne Boleyn Is the Poster Girl of Historical Fiction
Irene Goodman discusses elements of commercially successful historical fiction. It takes the right combination of an interesting life and commercial appeal to make ...Read Article
Judging a Book in Translation: A Profile of Ismail Kadare
Lucinda Byatt presents the case of Ismail Kadare, winner of the 2005 International Man Booker Prize. The International Man Booker Prize was only awarded ...Read Article