The winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2015 will be announced at the Harrogate History Festival on 22 October. The award, now in it’s fourth year, celebrates the best emerging voices in historical fiction. Readers can win all six titles in our amazing giveaway over on the HWA website. Five of the shortlisted authors will […]
Rake, Whores and Highwaymen
Every generation likes to think it invented sex. After all, the alternative is to accept your parents were at it, which is unthinkable. But attitudes towards sex – how we talk about it, how open and relaxed we are about it – do fluctuate. You can’t track a straight, progressive line from year zero to […]