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Historia interviews: 2021 Gold Crown Award winner Chris Lloyd

9 January 2022 By Frances Owen

Chris Lloyd won the HWA Gold Crown Award in 2021 for The Unwanted Dead, a tense thriller set in Paris at the start of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Detective Eddie Giral, still traumatised by his experiences during the First World War, is helpless in the face of this menace. There’s one thing he still […]

Historia giveaway! HWA Gold Crown Award 2021 shortlist

6 January 2022 By Editor

Historia’s running three HWA Crowns giveaways to celebrate the books shortlisted for the 2021 Crown Awards. This final one is for all six books on the Gold Crown shortlist. The Historia Gold Crown 2021 giveaway is open until 11.59pm on 15 January, 2022. The two winners will each receive all six books in the 2021 […]

Historia giveaway! HWA Non-fiction Crown Award 2021 shortlist

9 December 2021 By Editor

Historia’s running three HWA Crowns giveaways to celebrate the books shortlisted for the 2021 Crown Awards. This one is for all six books on the Non-fiction Crown shortlist. The Historia Non-fiction Crown 2021 giveaway is open until 11.59pm on 17 December, 2021. The two winners will each receive all six books in the 2021 HWA […]

The winners! The HWA Crown Awards 2021

24 November 2021 By Editor

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2021 HWA Crown Awards, celebrating the best historical writing of the year, fiction and non-fiction! Like all books submitted for this year’s prizes, they were published in the year between April 2020 and March 2021, the height of lockdown, so we’d like to express our admiration for […]

Historia giveaway! HWA Debut Crown Award 2021 shortlist

22 November 2021 By Editor

Historia’s running three HWA Crowns giveaways to celebrate the books shortlisted for the 2021 Crown Awards. The first is for all six books on the Debut Crown shortlist. (The Crown Awards winners will be announced on 24 November at 11am on our YouTube channel. You’ll also be able to find out who’s won just after […]

Historia interviews, 2021 Crown Awards shortlists: Stuart Turton

15 November 2021 By Frances Owen

Stuart Turton, author of The Devil and the Dark Water, talks to Historia for the third in our series of interviews with authors whose books have been shortlisted for HWA Crown Awards. His novel, which is up for the Gold Crown Award, is described by the judges as “Holmes and Watson on a 17th-century Dutch East […]

Historia interviews, 2021 Crown Awards shortlists: Mick Finlay

1 November 2021 By Frances Owen

Mick Finlay talks to Historia for the second in our series of interviews with authors whose books have been shortlisted for HWA Crown Awards. Mick’s novel, Arrowood and the Thames Corpses, follows the investigations of William Arrowood and Norman Barnett, private inquiry agents in London who get the cases – and clients – that aren’t […]

Historia interviews, 2021 Crown Awards shortlists: Ellen Alpsten

21 October 2021 By Frances Owen

In the first of our interviews with authors shortlisted for the 2021 HWA Crown Awards, Historia talks to Ellen Alpsten, whose novel, Tsarina, is in the running for a Debut Crown Award. It retells the ‘ultimate Cinderella’ story of the tumultuous rise of a peasant girl, Marta Helena Skowrońska, who became first the wife of […]

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