Accession by Livi Michael is the third and final instalment of her Wars of the Roses trilogy which opens in 1444 with the novel Succession. The trilogy centres itself around Margaret Beaufort and Margaret of Anjou and their competing ambitions for their sons and the English throne. Novel three, as one would expect from this […]
Not What it Used to Be
Taking the helm as our first Historia guest, Livi Michael considers how historical fiction has changed and how we can define it now. In the course of my lifetime, historical fiction has been on a journey, from mass-market romance to literary bestseller. It has absorbed and reflected the key changes of the 20th and 21st centuries […]