Celebrated Booker prize-winning author Dame Hilary Mantel died on September 23, 2022. Such a loss to the literary world and to the world of historical fiction. One obituary referred to
What do all these books have in common? And no, the answer isn’t that I’ve read them all 🙂 Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Tightrope by Simon Mawer The
Participants in the 2015 reader survey nominated their favourite historical fiction (a second post added those mentioned by 5 to 9 participants). What can we glean from the more than 1700
Some of you may have seen this on Tony Riches’ blog The Writing Desk a few days ago – many thanks, Tony. In a 2015 reader survey, I asked participants
In 2015, I asked readers to list their favourite historical fiction titles for the first time. Being a little more experienced I limited participants to three choices – clearly a
The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...
