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Gothic writers choose their favourite chilling books

30 October 2018 By Anna Mazzola

As the nights draw in and the ghosts seep from the walls, it’s time to huddle beneath your counterpane with a suitably creepy book. I asked seven of our most brilliantly chilling writers to name their favourite Gothic reads, both a classic and a modern Gothic novel. Prepare to be frightened, repulsed, entranced… Ruth Ware […]

Review: The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola

20 July 2018 By Catherine Hokin

“It was the birds that woke her, their liquid voices trickling into her dreams.” An apt quote from a novel that does precisely that: trickles in and won’t let you go. Anna Mazzola’s second novel The Story Keeper is inspired by the West Ham vanishings: the unexplained disappearance of a number of children and young […]

Historia Interviews: Kate Mosse

3 May 2018 By Anna Mazzola

The Burning Chambers, the first in a new series by Kate Mosse, is published today. Anna Mazzola met with her to discuss how to write compelling stories, what historical fiction says about the present day, pre-publication nerves and strong black coffee. Firstly, congratulations on a brilliant and gripping novel. I tore through it in a […]

History by the River March 18

26 February 2018 By Editor

History by the River is a monthly panel event with a social buzz for lovers of books, history and good beer. It’s a chance to get together with fellow readers and authors to hear about the best new historical writing, then discuss it all over a drink afterwards. With the hottest historical debut talent of […]

Historia Interviews: Kaite Welsh

29 May 2017 By Anna Mazzola

Kaite Welsh is an author, critic, journalist and activist. Her excellent debut novel, The Wages of Sin, set in the dark underworld of Victorian Edinburgh, is published by Tinder Press on 1 June. Here she discusses with fellow Victorianista Anna Mazzola her love of history, feminism, mob-caps and buttered crumpets. Your protagonist, Sarah Gilchrist, is […]

Alderney Literary Festival 2017

7 April 2017 By Anna Mazzola

Anna Mazzola reports from the Alderney Literary Festival 2017 Alderney, the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands, has blonde hedgehogs, about two thousand inhabitants, and numerous fortifications. It also has a history and literature festival. Every March, a group of historians, biographers and historical fiction writers are invited to attend the festival to throw fresh […]

Desert Island Books: Anna Mazzola

26 January 2017 By Anna Mazzola

Like all writers, I sometimes dream of being locked away from all humanity so that I can have the time to, a) write, and b) get through the enormous ‘TBR’ pile that has actually become an entire room. A desert island would be even better, assuming it’s the sunny, sandy kind with palm trees, hot […]

Read All About It!

12 July 2016 By Anna Mazzola

Anna Mazzola picks her top five novels based on real crimes and asks, why are we so fascinated? ‘Based on a real story’, ‘Inspired by a true murder’: we have long been fascinated by fiction and drama with their roots in real crimes. Maybe that is partly because we are drawn to what we believe […]

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