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History & Film | Austen’s Alternate Universe: Taboo
“Nobody excels at playing ferocious psychopaths with a sensitive side quite like Tom Hardy.” 1 The Regency era is fixed in…
New Voices: Elise Hooper, Lorena Hughes, Devin Murphy & Kaite Welsh
Introducing us to their tenacious, heroic and emotive characters and intriguing settings are debut novelists Elise Hooper, Lorena Hughes, Devin…
Finding Fairy Dust
It’s the question all writers are asked, and one – let’s be honest – we rarely know the answer to.…
On the Periphery of Power: Love, Madness, and Scandal – the Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Vicountess Purbeck by Johanna Luthman
Frances Coke was born in 1602, the last full year of the reign of Elizabeth I. She was the daughter…
The Tourist, the Expat and the Native: A Traveler’s Approach to Crafting Historical Fiction
Historical fiction is never solely about the past. Its subject may take us to another place in time, but the…
Fashion Websites, and a Travel History Book
Do you want to get your characters’ historical dress details right? Don’t rely on fashion plates alone. Nineteenth-century fashion plates…
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd illuminates the life of a fascinating 17th-century woman
Janet Todd’s masterly biography of the first professional lady of letters has been reissued by Fentum Press 21 years after…
Spellbound by the City of Poison: Holly Tucker’s new book on 17th-century Paris
Paris in the late 17th century was not a place for the faint of heart. Despite the frightening ease with…
‘Her Storied Past’ – A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner
When novelist Susan Meissner visited RMS Queen Mary, a British ocean liner built by Cunard in the 1930s but now…
HNS members get affiliate rate for Scotswrite conference
Take a look at an exciting conference being organised by Society of Authors in Scotland on the weekend 22-24…
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