The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Ben Kane we're here to talk about your new book, Napoleon’s Spy, and the Napoleonic era, and actually it's very timely because there's the Ridley Scott movie. Firstly, Scott has said that people who complain about his film being historically inaccurate ‘need to get a...
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I have read a number of Ben Kane’s novels and enjoyed them all. Having met Ben during a book-signing for Eagles at War, he then spent several minutes offering me valuable advice for my own nascent attempts to become an author and was a thoroughly pleasant chap. So,...
This collection of short stories encapsulates everything that makes Ben Kane one of the very best writers of historical fiction around at the moment. Though the stories are very much linked by the theme of Rome, there is considerable variety here and a welcome...
Richard the Lionheart is one of medieval history’s best-known figures. Arguments over whether he was a great warrior or a terrible king abound, and are unlikely to ever reach a satisfactory conclusion. Ben Kane peels back layers of myth and supposition, and allows a...
Lionheart is the first novel in a new medieval set series that follows the life and achievements of Richard, Coeur de Lion. Beginning in 1179, the book tackles Richard's life before the crusades against a backdrop of political intrigue and family in-fighting....
What prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? It was a toss up between Vikings and Romans. One day, around the time I started to make serious plans, I saw Bernard Cornwell’s first Uhtred book in the window of a Waterstones. I was so naïve...
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