Author David Cairns celebrates the fourth instalment of his Findo Gask and Erroll Rait Mystery series: The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice. His stories are “meticulously researched and mixed with thrilling fiction
Put yourself in the shoes of Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall or Alice Dubois in The Alice Network, or Tom Bilder in The Pillars of the Earth. Through historical fiction,
The 2025 winner of the Walter Scott prize for historical fiction is The Land In Winter by Andrew Miller. I was curious to look at the finalists for this prize
A Write of History, conceived in early 2012, now has over 1200 blog posts. At roughly 1000 words a post, that’s 1.2 million words. And let’s not forget the images
Jamie Ford‘s debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2010 Asian/Pacific American
Author Ben Kane was born in Kenya, courtesy of the fact that his father was working there as a veterinarian. Much later, after a three-month solo trip along part of
Please welcome C.W. Gortner to kick off a new series titled The Writing Journey. The intent is to showcase authors who’ve had a long career writing historical fiction and to
When Elizabeth St. John asked if I would enjoy an early release copy of her latest novel, The King’s Intelligencer, I didn’t hesitate for a moment. You see, I’ve read
I’m delighted to feature the cover of Stephanie Dray’s soon-to-release novel Becoming Madame Secretary. If you haven’t read any of Stephanie’s novels, I encourage you to run out (or go
What do well-known authors of historical fiction have to say about the genre? Let’s look at a few. Some time ago, I interviewed Edward Rutherfurd, author of novels such as
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
