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June Giveaway!

15 June 2017 By Editor

Three fantastic new releases up for grabs this month. Win a copy of The Faithful, the brand new novel from Juliet West, historian Clare Mulley’s latest, The Women Who Flew For Hitler, and At First Light, Vanessa Lafaye’s follow up to her debut hit Summertime. Read more about The Faithful. Read more about The Women Who Flew For Hitler. Read […]

Historia Interviews: Juliet West and Vanessa Lafaye

7 June 2017 By Editor

Juliet West and Vanessa Lafaye discuss the dark political backdrops to their new novels, The Faithful and At First Light. Both books are love stories which explore ‘inconvenient history’: episodes which have slipped from the collective consciousness because they expose uncomfortable truths about society. Vanessa: We both decided to dramatise events which have been shoved […]

The Great Pandemic

14 November 2016 By Vanessa Lafaye

As we commemorate Armistice Day, Vanessa Lafaye looks back on the devastating fallout of the First World War – and the unseen enemy waiting in the wings. With the cruelest of ironies, even as the Armistice bells were ringing in every town and village, another attack was under way. The enemy wore no uniform, was invisible […]

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Lady Rosamund and the Horned God by Barbara Monajem

20 April 2021

The Damask Rose by Carol McGrath

15 April 2021

Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders by Nathen Amin

15 April 2021

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