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On Research, Fashion & Prinny: An Interview with Lauren Willig
To mark the publication of bestselling author Lauren Willig’s newest novel in her popular Pink Carnation historical espionage series, Jenny…
Translating a Genre
Lucinda Byatt explores the historical novel in translation. Language is key to discovering other countries and communities and sharing their…
History & Film: BBC America’s Copper series
GANGS? HOOKERS? 1864? WE’RE IN. So quoth reviewer Tim Stack1 about the BBC America series Copper, which saw its first season…
Time and Relativity: Beverly Swerling’s Bristol House
In Bristol House (Viking, 2013), Beverly Swerling spins an intricate and compelling tale set in both contemporary and Tudor London.…
After Flodden
Rosemary Goring talks with Margaret Skea about her latest novel. A major anniversary of a significant event often spawns a…
HNS 2013 US Conference: Attendee Perspectives
21-23 June 2013 | St. Petersburg, Florida, USA It won’t have escaped your attention that HNS 2013 recently ended in St…
The “What Ifs” of History
C.W. Gortner treads the line between fact and fiction. The current rise in the popularity of historical fiction today is…
New Voices: Anne Cleeland, Joanna Hickson, Carol McGrath & George Willis Tate
Debut novelists Anne Cleeland, Joanna Hickson, Carol McGrath & George Willis Tate introduce us to the historical periods that inspired…
The Obscure War: HF and the War of 1812, Part One
Cindy Vallar introduces readers to novels set during this historic period. One Sunday evening in the seventies, I watched “The…
Travelling Through Time: An Interview with David Downing
Myfanwy Cook talks with David Downing, author of the atmospheric John Russell and Effi Koen spy thrillers, set in Berlin…
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