The author discusses the wartime setting, narrative choices and historical research behind his latest murder mystery.
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Author Interviews
Annie Elliot on Mr & Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
The author talks through her debut novel, how she reclaims the story of Catherine Dickens and examines her mistreatment at the hands of her husband
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An Interview with Daria Santini
The author talks through her background in German literature, her inclination towards cultural history and possible biographies of 20th-century women.
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AoH Book Club: James Dunford Wood on The Big Little War
The author discusses the overlooked Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941, exploring how the improvised defence of RAF Habbaniya may have had far-reaching consequences for the Second World War.
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Annie Elliot on Mr & Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”
The author talks through her debut novel, how she reclaims the story of Catherine Dickens and examines her mistreatment at the hands of her husband
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The Seeker: S.G. MacLean Interview
S.G. MacLean is the creator of the Captain Damian Seeker series of novels set during the English Civil Wars. Interviewed by author and academic Steven Veerapen.
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AoH Book Club: James Dunford Wood on The Big Little War
The author discusses the overlooked Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941, exploring how the improvised defence of RAF Habbaniya may have had far-reaching consequences for the Second World War.
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An Interview with Daria Santini
The author talks through her background in German literature, her inclination towards cultural history and possible biographies of 20th-century women.
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Geoffrey Roberts on Kathleen Harriman’s Wartime Letters
Geoffrey Roberts
The historian discusses the journalist, diplomat’s daughter and insider to the Allied leadership, her correspondence and daily life in London and Moscow during World War II.
AoH Fiction Book of the Month: Light of the Moon
Elizabeth Buchan on Light of the Moon: why she chose the SOE, set the story in Ribérac, and how research with surviving agents shaped her novel.
In Conversation with Mickey Mayhew
The author discusses Tudor and royal mysteries, his research process, and his current biography of Ed Gein.
John Ash, Editor of Britain at War, Interviewed
Alan Bardos interviews the editor of Britain at War magazine.
AoH Book Club: John Kiszely on General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat – A New Biography
Shaping Britain’s war and the post-war world from behind the scenes and proving that power was often exercised not on the battlefield but in the committee room – John Kiszely talks through the career of ‘Pug’ Ismay with the Editor.
Paul Bernardi on The Reckoning
The author discusses The Reckoning, the third and final volume in his Rebellion series, as resistance is met with Norman brutality.
Fiction Book of the Month: Mark Ellis on The Embassy Murders
An insight into Frank Merlin, the widowed Scotland Yard detective navigating crime, politics, and wartime London at the heart of Mark’s WW2 mystery series.
Escaping Communism: Peter Kasl Interviewed
Peter Kasl
Peter Kasl reflects on his childhood escape from communist Czechoslovakia, the realities of life under surveillance, and rebuilding a new life in the United States.
Mickey Mayhew on The Romanovs
Mickey Mayhew
Historian Mickey Mayhew discusses the last months of the Romanovs, life inside the Alexander Palace, and Empress Alexandra’s role as the family faced revolution and captivity.
Melanie Singh Hughes
The novelist discusses writing women’s lives across the upheavals of the 20th century.
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