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An Honest Man by Ben Fergusson

14 February 2020 By Editor

In West Berlin in 1989, eighteen-year-old Ralf has just left school and is living a final golden summer with his three best friends. They spend their days swimming, smoking and daydreaming about the future, oblivious to the storm gathering on the other side of the Berlin Wall. But an unsettling discovery about his family and […]

An Honest Man by Ben Fergusson

4 July 2019 By Editor

West Berlin in 1989. Eighteen-year-old Ralf has just left school and is living a final golden summer with his three best friends. They spend their days swimming, smoking and daydreaming about the future, oblivious to the storm gathering on the other side of the Berlin Wall. But an unsettling discovery about his family and a […]

The 2018 Crown awards – our judges

26 October 2018 By Editor

With the winners of the three 2018 HWA Crown awards announced on Wednesday, 7 November, this is a good time to say thank you to our judges, who’ve spent many weeks reading the longlists and choosing the shortlists and will have to make the hard choice of one winner in their Crown award category. The […]

How to Write a Historical Debut: A Cautionary Tale

31 July 2018 By Ben Fergusson

HWA Debut Crown judge, Ben Fergusson, gives an inside view on what makes or breaks a historical

Historia Interviews: Ben Fergusson

10 May 2017 By Jason Hewitt

Ben Fergusson won the Betty Trask Prize and the HWA Debut Crown Award in 2015 with The Spring of Kasper Meier. His new book, The Other Hoffman Sister, has just hit the shelves. Jason Hewitt caught up with Ben to find out more. Hi Ben. I loved The Other Hoffman Sister – as you know – but […]

Historia Interviews: The Debut Crown Shortlist

1 October 2015 By Katherine Clements

The winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2015 will be announced at the Harrogate History Festival on 22 October. The award, now in it’s fourth year, celebrates the best emerging voices in historical fiction. Readers can win all six titles in our amazing giveaway over on the HWA website. Five of the shortlisted authors will […]

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