Lesley Downer is a novelist and journalist who has written numerous books, both fiction and non-fiction, about Japan and Asia. She is the author of The Shogun Quartet, four novels telling the stories of four different women who are caught up in the cataclysmic events when the shogunate collapsed and Japan leapt into the modern western […]
Historia Q&A: Sara Sheridan
Sara Sheridan is an Edinburgh-based novelist who writes cosy crime noir mysteries set in 1950s Brighton and historical novels based on the real-life stories of late Georgian and early Victorian explorers. She has also written for children. In 2016 she founded the brand REEK. perfume, with signature scent, Damn Rebel Bitches, inspired by the Jacobite women of history. It has […]
July Giveaway!
We’ve got something a bit special for you this month. Win a bundle of children’s and young adult historical fiction, including best-selling and award-winning authors – perfect summer holiday reading for budding historians! Just follow the instructions below to enter. You’ve got four chances to win: 1. Sign up to the Historia mailing list. We […]
HWA Crown Shortlists 2017
The Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) are delighted to announce the books that have been shortlisted for their 2017 Gold, Debut and Non-Fiction Crowns. We’re very proud of these shortlists and the outstanding quality of the books selected. These are all works which inspired the judges with their passion, conviction and superb story-telling. They take us […]
City of Masks by S D Sykes
1358. Oswald de Lacy, Lord Somershill, is in Venice, awaiting a pilgrim galley to the Holy Land. While the city is under siege from the Hungarians, Oswald lodges with an English merchant, and soon comes under the dangerous spell of the decadent and dazzling island state that sits on the hinge of Europe, where East […]
The Himalayan Summer by Louise Brown
Ellie Jeffreys arrives in Darjeeling with her British husband, en route to Kathmandu. They have ten-month-old, golden-haired twins, and despite appearing to be a happy family, Ellie’s relationship with the overbearing, philandering Francis is disintegrating. At a cocktail party, Ellie meets Hugh Douglas, a maverick explorer and botanist. Despite the rumours surrounding Hugh, Ellie is […]
In the Month of the Midnight Sun by Cecilia Ekbäck
Sweden 1856. Blackasen Mountain: a distant place of rumour, superstition and now – murder. They say it was the Lapp who killed the three men. But something is not right. Ester knows it – but to help the settlers is to betray her people. Magnus feels it too. Sent by the Minister to survey the […]
The True Soldier by Paul Fraser Collard
‘This ain’t the kind of war you are used to. It’s brother against brother, countryman against countryman’ April, 1861. Jack Lark arrives in Boston as civil war storms across America. A hardened soldier, Jack has always gone where he was ordered to go – and killed the enemy he was ordered to kill. But when […]