The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
The Fateful Year: 1066 When William, Duke of Normandy, defeated King Harold II on Senlac ridge on that chill autumn day in October 1066, he must have hoped that the whole country would submit to him without further delay. But he soon found out that little had changed...
I don’t know about you, but I’m fascinated by history as much for what we think we know as I am for what we know we don’t know. For me, it’s where (un)knowns overlap that historical fiction comes alive. My recently-released novel, Between the Clouds and the River,...
Richard, can you tell us about when you first had the idea to write the Band of Brothers series? I was fortunate to have early success in my career through writing Roman military fiction, involving the campaigns and careers of the likes of Julius Caesar, Augustus and...
British Ballet Ever since I was a teenager training at The Royal Ballet School, I have been fascinated by dance history. Alongside daily ballet classes and academic lessons, we studied the development of ballet, how it emerged from the court dances of the Italian...
Matt, congratulations on your first novel. Why did you want to write this story? Thank you. There were a number of reasons. Firstly, I had long wanted to write a novel. My writing history has included journalism, poetry and short stories but never a novel. It felt...
Today you can give a Spy School Experience gift voucher to a loved one, or learn to be a spy as part of a fun team-building exercise at work. There are spies in our favourite films and TV programmes and in the books we read. As a nation, we are obsessed with a...
The Irresistible Appeal of the 1930s What is it about the 1930s that we find so irresistible? What is it about this decade that provides such constant inspiration to writers and filmmakers – not to mention our imaginations? Why can’t we get enough of the 1930s? I...
Summer Reads from Aspects of HistoryAlan Bardos Author of Rising TideMunich Wolf, by Rory Clements is set in 1935 Munich. When the body of a young English socialite is found, Kripo detective Sebastian Wolff is called in to solve the politically sensitive case. The...
At the outbreak of the Second World War, the charismatic and hugely attractive Nancy Wake was an Australian living with her French businessman husband in Marseilles. Immediately, she plunged into resistance work which resulted in her having to flee from France,...
Books Click on any of the books covers below to either buy or get more information on Amazon From the Publisher Chiselbury Publishing was founded 2011 to make the works of James Leasor, one of the bestselling and most prolific British authors of the second half of the...
