Historia talks to Louise Brown, author of the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown shortlisted novel, Eden Gardens. The HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown celebrates new voices in historical fiction. Have you always been interested in history? I can say with certainty that I’ve been interested in history since I was nine years old. In 1972, I was […]
Historia Interviews: Stephen Jarvis
Historia talks to Stephen Jarvis, author of HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown shortlisted novel, Death and Mr Pickwick. The HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown celebrates new voices in historical fiction. Have you always been interested in history? Certain aspects of history have always grabbed me. For instance, I am very interested in the historical events which have driven the […]
Historia Interviews: Antonia Hodgson
Antonia Hodgson’s new novel, A Death at Fountains Abbey, is released on 25 August. Continuing the award-winning Thomas Hawkins series (The Devil in the Marshalsea, The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins) the book finds our eponymous hero blackmailed into investigating a murder threat, forced to leave London for Yorkshire, where he must hunt down those responsible or lose […]
Historia Interviews: Robyn Young
28 July sees the launch of Robyn Young’s new book Sons of The Blood: New World Rising. This terrific novel, the first of a series, is set in 1483, as Richard of Gloucester seizes the reins of power after the death of his brother Edward IV. It is a rich tapestry of intrigue and adventure […]
Historia Interviews: Barbara Erskine
When Barbara Erskine’s debut Lady of Hay was published in 1986, it became an instant hit and went on to sell over three million copies worldwide. Thirty years on, Barbara’s novels have appeared in at least twenty-six languages, and continue to top the bestseller lists. This summer sees the publication of a new novel, Sleeper’s […]
Historia Interviews: Conn Iggulden
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 […]
Historia Interviews: Lindsey Davis
Robert Fabbri talks to bestselling author Lindsey Davis on the publication of her 30th novel. I thoroughly enjoyed Lindsey ’s new book, The Graveyard of the Hesperides, and finished it in two sittings over a weekend. Because I don’t normally read other books set in the same time that I write, so as not to […]
Historia Interviews: Alison Weir
Alison Weir is one of the UK’s best-loved and best-selling historians. She’s published seventeen history books and five historical novels, selling over 2.7 million books worldwide. Her latest project is ambitious – a re-telling of the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives, in six novels, over six years. The first, Katherine of Aragon: The True […]