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Historia Interviews: Conn Iggulden

9 June 2016 By Toby Clements

The fourth and final novel in Conn Iggulden’s epic Wars of the Roses series was published in May. Toby Clements chats to Conn about Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors, and asks, Richard III: did he or didn’t he? After Ancient Rome and 12th century Mongolia, why medieval England? What makes one era catmint to some while another […]

The Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor

21 April 2016 By Toby Clements

Andrew Taylor is the award-winning and best-selling crime fiction author of, perhaps most notably, the Lydmouth series, but he has proved equally skilful at finely wrought, and solidly researched historical fiction, including the 2003 bestseller The American Boy, an unforgettable mystery set in London during the childhood of Edgar Allan Poe.  In The Ashes of […]

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