The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
I’m drawn to writing about people who disappear. Perhaps it’s because as a historical novelist I look for the gaps in the historical record that can be filled by the imagination. One such historical figure is Francis, Viscount Lovell, close friend and advisor to King...
Nicola Cornick, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? My very first book was a Regency romance inspired by my enjoyment of Georgette Heyer’s writing more than anything else! However, when I changed genre to write dual-time...
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Elizabeth Woodville, the attractive commoner who managed to enchant a king and become queen of England, has proved herself a controversial figure just for being who she was. To some she is a romantic heroine, a regular young woman who married for love and held her own...
The Unpopular King: The Life and Times of King Richard III by Alfred Owen Legge
A Short History of Henry VII, Founder of the Tudor Dynasty, by James Gairdner
The Queen's Rival is a stunning look at the 'later' life of Cecily Neville from 1459 until 1483. This is not a 'quiet' period of history and to cover the tumultuous events, the author adopts the technique of recording the letters of the main protagonists, either from...
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On 30th January 1649 parliament cut off Charles I’s head. A year later the ‘king’s crown’, dating from the early Tudors, was ‘totally broken and defaced’. Charles’s father King James had called it ‘the symbol of a people’s love’. Parliament valued it at £1,100. The...
Part 1 I have had a bit of a rant on Facebook about the common myths which persist about many aspects of the Wars of the Roses period. I vowed to do something about it, so here’s my second offering which seeks to explode the myth that Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick,...
