Elisabeth Gifford writes about the link between Scottish whalers and the Inuit people living on the Arctic Atlantic coasts, which is a major theme in her latest book, A Woman Made of Snow. The Arctic Bar in Dundee is an unprepossessing pub with a modern frontage, but inside the dusty harpoon guns and … Continue Reading
Features
Should historical authors feel guilt when they write real people as antiheroes?
What responsibility has an author of historical fiction towards real people who they write as antiheroes in a novel? Should authors feel guilty … Continue Reading
The HWA Crown Awards shortlists 2021
The 2021 HWA Crown Awards shortlists are out! We're delighted to announce the 18 outstanding books which have gone forward for consideration for … Continue Reading
The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition 2021 shortlist and winner
The HWA and the Dorothy Dunnett Society are delighted to announce the shortlist and winner for the 2021 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story … Continue Reading
The politics of Tutankhamun’s tomb
Nearly a century after the excavations at Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, we are coming to regard the finders, keepers … Continue Reading
Interviews
HWA Crowns winners interviews: Toby Green
Toby Green is the 2020 winner of the Historical Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Crown Award for his ground-breaking book, A Fistful of Shells. Many years of detailed research culminated in this fascinating … Continue Reading
HWA Crowns winners interviews: Jane Healey
Jane Healey's The Animals of Lockwood Manor won the 2020 HWA Debut Crown Award, which celebrates new voices in historical fiction. In this atmospheric gothic tale of family madness, long-buried secrets and hidden … Continue Reading
Reviews
Review: The Forgotten by Mary Chamberlain
Sarah Day reviews Mary Chamberlain's new novel, The Forgotten, a "compelling mystery" set in Berlin in 1945 and London in the late 1950s. Most of us encounter the history of the Second World War at some point in … Continue Reading
Review: The Good Death by SD Sykes
Catherine Hokin reviews The Good Death by SD Sykes and finds it "a book to get lost in" and a story for our times. The Good Death is the fifth book in SD Sykes’s 14th-century Oswald de Lacy series of which I have … Continue Reading