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New books by HNS members, February 2018
Congrats to the following HNS author members on their new and upcoming releases! For members: if you’ve written a historical…
Alternative Truth: Historical Fiction: Does It Matter that We Get the Facts Right?
In these dark days of fake news and alternative truths, this may be the right time to look at the…
Lost Season of Love and Snow: Love, Power, Sex and Death in Imperial Russia
Jennifer Laam is the author of two previous novels, The Secret Daughter of the Tsar (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013) and…
Multi-Period Novels: The Keys to Weaving Together Two Stories from Different Time Periods
In Historical Fiction II: A Guide to the Genre, HNR’s own Sarah Johnson discusses how “multi-period novels shift between contemporary…
History & Film: Alexander Nevsky and the Uses of Historical Fiction
“The logic behind it makes everything clearer, but only after the emotional response.” –Sergei Eisenstein 1 The film Alexander Nevsky, made…
Archival Fever
Any historical fiction writer has to be something of a sleuth. For my first novel, The Pagoda Tree (Viking Australia,…
Real Heroines in Historical Novels
My passion for reading and writing historical novels was formed in the 1960s when I discovered Anya Seton’s Katherine (about…
New Voices: Elizabeth Jane Corbett, Clarissa Harwood, Teresa Messineo and Tom Miller
The New Year has unveiled the writings of debut novelists Elizabeth Jane Corbett, Clarissa Harwood, Teresa Messineo and Tom Miller.…
Ancient Greece, Modern Italy: Violent Parallels
Alessandro Barbero is a historian and the author of several major history books. He also writes fiction, winning the Strega…
Bombay’s Legal Detective
Agatha and Macavity Award-winning author Sujata Massey’s latest novel, The Widows of Malabar Hill (Soho Press, 2018), is the first in her…
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- Jerry Bennett on "Pictures and reports from the HNS Conference in Scotland, 2018": This was my first HNS conference, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. My …
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