The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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The Imperial War Museum (IWM) has been publishing their Wartime Classics, novels written by veterans of the Second World War and based on their experiences. The writers very much represent the citizen army, including the actor, Anthony Quayle, and Kathleen Hewitt, the...
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Exit Ghost, by Philip Gooden. It’s not the best part I’ve ever played or the biggest but it’s the one that had the greatest effect on my audience. In fact I’ve never seen an audience reaction like it. Very pleasing, in one way. Very unpleasing in another. Every time I...
Summer Reads from Aspects of HistoryPaul BernardiTaking a well-earned break from the adventures of Beobrand in his much-loved Bernicia Chronicles series, Matthew Harffy moves forward the best part of one hundred and fifty years in this, his most recent and...
The IWM Wartime Classics series was established in late 2019 with the re-publication of four Second World War novels. Since which, six more have been produced. Each novel is written directly from the author’s own experience of the war. They take the reader right into...
I have been asked to provide some tips on publishing your historical novel for writers when submitting proposals to publishers or literary agents. There is, of course, more information available via other articles on the internet and the likes of The Writers' &...
When starting any historical fiction, I always wonder where it stacks up when compared with Sharpe, Patrick O’Brian, Hornblower and Flashman. It's fortunate, therefore, with Protector by Conn Iggulden, that one is in the hands of a master storyteller. Set in ancient...
Land of Fire has Britain in 455AD and in turmoil. The departure of the Roman Empire has left warring factions in a country of many different peoples, from Saxon to Druid, creating a tumultuous world where corrupt kings such as the formidable Vortigern abuse their...
The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby.
