Next up in our HWA Crown Award interview series we talk to Emily Bitto about memory, the Australian art world and her Debut Crown shortlisted novel, The Strays. The HWA Debut Crown celebrates new voices in historical fiction. Have you always been interested in history? I have always been interested in history, but probably as […]
Onslaught: The Centurions II by Anthony Riches
The author of the bestselling Empire sequence continues his new trilogy: the epic story of the uprising of the Batavi in AD 69. The Rhine frontier has exploded into all-out war. The Batavi cohorts, so recently proud soldiers of Rome, have returned to their homeland, summoned by their new leader Kivilaz: they will be the […]
Betrayal: The Centurions I by Anthony Riches
AD 69: The Rhine frontier has exploded into bloody rebellion, and four centurions who once fought in the same army find themselves on opposite sides of a vicious insurrection. The rebel leader Kivilaz and his Batavi rebels have humbled the Romans in a battle they should have won. The legions must now defend their northern […]
Historia Interviews: James Terry
We talk to HWA Debut Crown author James Terry about family history, the Wild West and his shortlisted novel, The Solitary Woman of Shakespeare. The HWA Debut Crown celebrates new voices in historical fiction. Have you always been interested in history? I must confess, with some embarrassment, that history is not one of my great passions. […]
This Deceitful Light by Jemahl Evans
In a time of civil war and betrayal, one drunken fop could be the difference between victory and defeat. Sir Blandford Candy is an irascible old drunk with a love of hats, a dislike of poets, and an idiot for a nephew. Resting after blackmailing an old acquaintance, he looks back on his life and […]
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The Experiment by Eric Lee
For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism. The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia […]
Historia Interviews: Giles Kristian
We talk to Giles Kristian about Viking longships, writing routines and his HWA Endeavour Ink Gold Crown shortlisted novel, Wings of the Storm. You’re probably best known for your two Viking trilogies. Have you always been interested in Viking history? My mother is Norwegian and I spent a lot of time growing up on the […]