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Historia giveaway: the 2024 HWA Crown Awards winners

4 July 2025 By Editor

Historia is giving away all three winning books in the 2024 HWA Crown Awards to two lucky winners! These awards celebrate the best in recent historical writing, fiction and non-fiction. The two winners of our 2024 HWA Crown Awards winners giveaway will each receive: Disobedient by Elizabeth Fremantle.Our judges called this book “the masterful telling of […]

Historia giveaway: Chris Lloyd novels

16 August 2023 By Editor

Historia is giving away five prizes to celebrate Paris Requiem, Chris Lloyd’s World War Two noir novel, coming out in paperback! Five winners will each get copies of both of Chris’s Eddie Giral novels, set in the opening months of the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940. The first in the series, The Unwanted Dead, […]

Historia giveaway! Napoleon’s Spy by Ben Kane

28 April 2023 By Editor

Ben Kane‘s new novel, Napoleon’s Spy, will be published on 25 May. It’s a new era for Ben, and we hope you’re as intrigued about it as we are! So to celebrate, we’re giving away five copies, one to each of five giveaway winners. For your chance to win this book, described by Giles Kristian […]

Historia giveaway: the 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award shortlist

3 April 2023 By Editor

Historia is giving away all six books shortlisted for the 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award to two lucky winners! Our judges said: “These six books represent everything marvellous in historical fiction. Between them they cover a cast sweep of human history; from Sarmatia in the second century AD to rural 1980s Ireland. All of them […]

Historia giveaway: the 2022 HWA Debut Crown Award shortlist

28 February 2023 By Editor

The 2023 HWA Crown Awards are now open for entry! Details are at the bottom of this page and full information is on the HWA website. To celebrate, Historia is giving away all six books shortlisted for the Debut Crown Award in 2022. Two winners will each receive:The Leviathan by Rosie AndrewsMoonlight and the Pearler’s […]

Historia giveaway! Ben Kane’s Lionheart trilogy

19 January 2023 By Editor

To celebrate Ben Kane‘s King coming out in paperback on 19 January, Historia is running a special giveaway! Two winners will each receive all three books in Ben’s Lionheart series: Lionheart, Crusader and King. The giveaway is open until 11.59pm on 28 January, 2023. Follow the instructions below to enter.  You’ve got up to four chances to […]

Historia giveaway: the 2022 HWA Non-fiction Crown shortlist

30 November 2022 By Editor

This month we’re giving away all six books shortlisted for the 2022 HWA Non-fiction Crown Award. The giveaway is open until 11.59pm on Wednesday, 7 December, 2022. Just in time for an early Christmas present for you, or a friend (or five). The winner will get one copy of each of the following books: The […]

Historia giveaway: The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore

29 October 2022 By Editor

We’re giving away a stunning book this month: one copy of The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore, described as “the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family.” The giveaway is open until 11.59pm on Monday, 7 November, 2022. The winner will get […]

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