The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
In All the Courage We Have Found, Carly Schabowski brings us a tale of adventure, bravery and fear that celebrates those trying to survive across Europe during The Second World War. Written through three perspectives, our main character, Kasia, travels to France to...
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Allan Martin’s protagonist, Chief Inspector Jüri Hallmets from Death in Tallin, returns to solve a new crime in the sequel to Death in Tallinn, Winter Blood. Martin crafts vibrant characters and settings, throwing the reader into the thick of pre-World War Two...
Paris at First Light is the second book in Amanda Lees’ ‘World War II Resistance’ series, but can be read as a standalone. The series is dedicated to telling the stories of fearless female secret agents and their experiences of courage, endurance, love and loss. Set...
At some point around AD 155 the Roman fort of Blatobulgium was destroyed. The Roman army when abandoning one of its castra would, as a matter of good military practice and in an orderly manner, demolish the defences in order to deny them to the enemy. However, this...
Augustus: Son of Rome, about the young Octavius Caesar journeying to Rome after hearing of his great uncle’s assassination, was your breakthrough book. It was a huge hit on kindle, leading a wave of other novelists to score hits in the genre and period. Can you tell...
Books of 2021 from Aspects of HistoryTimothy Ashby Author of Elizabethan Secret AgentAt the top of my favourites list of recent historical books is Leanda de Lisle´s Henrietta Maria. Although non-fiction, the book reads like a historical novel, with fascinating...
In the last 25 years, as far as I can tell since Quentin Tarantino arrived on the scene with Pulp Fiction, ‘medieval’ has been used as a term of insult – intended to convey a particularly brutal form of behaviour. There are plenty of historians of the Middle Ages who...
There are many fictional accounts exploring the extreme experiences of the Second World War, but The Woman Outside the Walls brings a unique tale of survival, guilt and regret. With a dual timeline that takes place over almost 90 years, this novel follows the story of...
Alistair Tosh, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? I have always been fascinated by the ancient history of southwest Scotland and northern England. Much of it is only written in the landscape rather than in any document....
