The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
If you love crime fiction and a detective tale, Watching the Detectives is for you. Watching the Detectives is an anthology that brings together thirteen short stories, alongside interviews with each author. Each story transports the reader to a different time in...
Hello Steven – thanks for talking to us a few years on from the publication of The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I, our Book Club pick for June. In the book, you set out to strip away the myths around the first Stuart King of England – what was the...
Books Click on any of the books covers below to either buy or get more information on AmazonFrom the Publisher Head of Zeus opened for business on 3rd January 2012, won Digital Business of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2015, Independent Publisher of the Year...
Whether you are interested in being introduced to British history, or you are familiar with it, Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee, will prove to be a find. Borne out of a successful podcast of the same name, Charlie Higson has written a book which entertains and educates in...
Can you first tell us about the genesis of the podcast and book – Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee? It all started for me at an old-fashioned, very minor, prep school in the 1960s. I’m probably from the last generation of British children who was taught a straightforward,...
When Elizabeth I lay dying in March 1603, England held its breath. Later generations would remember the Tudor succession as smooth, almost serene. But that is hindsight. At the time, many feared – and some expected – civil war. Elizabeth had refused to name her...
Your book After Elizabeth opens at Whitehall during the last Christmas of Elizabeth I’s reign. From a political perspective, what sort of environment was Sir John Harington walking into? He walked into a court glittering on the brink of extinction. There were dances,...
Whig vs Tory During the pulsating and action-packed months of 1712, 1713 and 1714 many people, including a hefty chunk of MPs, were convinced that the country teetered on the edge either of the imposition of an absolutist Roman Catholic King and the extirpation of the...
With Americans celebrating Thanksgiving at the end of the month, November seems a good time to consider the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower from Europe in 1620. Whilst researching my Alexander Baxby mystery Paying in Blood, I learnt more about their roots in...
Prince Rupert of the Rhine: King Charles I’s Cavalier Commander, by Mark Turnbull Following his extraordinary study of Charles I’s private life, Mark Turnbull now turns his attention to another major player in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Prince Rupert of the...
