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Start reading Power & The People
Power & The People by Alev Scott and Andronike Makres is out in paperback tomorrow, and we are delighted to share the introduction with you today. This insightful and highly readable took takes you through […]
Read MoreExtract of The Nine Hundred
To mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and international Holocaust Memorial Day, we are sharing this extraordinary message from Edith Friedman Grossman, one of the survivors whose story is told in […]
Read MoreRead the History behind The Crown
If you are, like us, hooked by the recent third series of The Crown (definitely NOT on our third re-watch, definitely not), then you’ll also want to know more about the history behind the events […]
Read MoreSix thrilling reads for this Halloween
This year for Halloween, we have made a list of six thrilling reads: from wildly fascinating stories of witches around the world to bloody revolutions under the reign of Richard II to odd, unexplained mysteries. […]
Read MoreThe Central Park Five: A reflection
The case of the Central Park Five is being revisited with a new acclaimed Netflix limited series on the subject, When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay. About the book: This is the only book that […]
Read MoreHow Queen Victoria invented the Royal Wedding
Victoria and Albert’s famous marriage began with a spectacular royal wedding, just like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle earlier this year. We enjoyed the familiar carriage ride along the streets, the big white dress, the […]
Read MoreA must-have for anyone interested in cartography: Theatre of the World
Theatre of the World reignites our curiosity with the world both ancient and modern. It is beautifully illustrated and rich in detail. Before you could just scroll Google Maps, maps were being constructed from the ideas and […]
Read MoreCONSTANTINOPLE 1453: THE GREATEST SIEGE IN HISTORY – JAMES HENEAGE
CONSTANTINOPLE 1453: THE GREATEST SIEGE IN HISTORY – JAMES HENEAGE There have been longer sieges, there have been ones involving bigger armies and worse slaughter, but none have been so dramatic and consequential as the […]
Read MoreHistorical fiction, ancestry and artefacts
My most recent novel, TESTAMENT, contains five chapters of historical fiction – a prologue set at the time of the Phoenicians in the 6th century BC, two chapters set during the British Abyssinia campaign of […]
Read MoreUsing Real Historical Characters in Fiction – S.G MacLean
I am often asked about the extent to which I use real historical characters in my fiction. Because I write historical crime, I don’t feel I can use real characters as the victims or perpetrators […]
Read MoreSnooping in the name of History – Jane Housham
For me no trip to Brighton is complete without a poke around Snoopers’ Paradise, the rambling antique emporium in the North Laine. I was rifling through a box of old photographs there when I noticed […]
Read MoreJeska Lyons reviews The Unseeing by Anna Mozzola
What struck me the most when reading this book was the incredible sense of time and place Mazzola creates, and how vividly she paints a picture of grim 1830s London. We meet Sarah Gale, the […]
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