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The Unwanted Suitor: a short story (part two)

10 September 2020 By Sophia Tobin

This is the second and final part of Historia’s serialisation of Sophia Tobin’s The Unwanted Suitor, taken from Victoriana, the HWA collection of ten short stories set in the 19th century, each one accompanied by an interview with the author. In the first part, the narrator, a vicar living on the East Anglia coast, marries […]

A Plague on your Business by Michael Jecks: part 2

20 July 2020 By Michael Jecks

Historia’s serialisation of A Plague on your Business by Michael Jecks continues with the second and final part. This is an exclusive extract from By the Sword, the new HWA collection of short stories set in the medieval period. The cook was a lugubrious, scrawny fellow, like a man whodid not enjoy his own food. […]

Exclusive Extract: Nucleus by Rory Clements

14 February 2018 By Rory Clements

Rory Clements introduces an exclusive extract from his latest novel. In 1939, Jews in Nazi Germany were desperate to get out of the country, but that was not easy. Not only did they need an exit visa, they also needed a permit to stay in their destination country. Because of this, the understaffed British passport office […]

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