It is 1944 in war-battered London. Freya and Shona are identical twins, close despite their different characters. Freya is a newly qualified doctor treating the injured in an East End hospital, while Shona has been recruited by the SOE. The sisters are so physically alike that they can fool people into thinking that one is […]
Some reasons why history gets lost
The revealing – or reappraisal – of ‘forgotten’ histories, from national to family ones, is a recurring theme in historical fiction, as several recent features in Historia have shown. Often this burying of the past is an attempt to cover events which people have considered shameful, but that’s not always the reason for history getting […]
Historia giveaway! Sisterhood by VB Grey
Historia’s giveaway for August 2021 is for three copies of Sisterhood by VB Grey, which is published on 19 August, 2021. Entries open at 6pm on 15 August, 2021, and close at 11.59pm on 24 August, 2021. Three winning entrants will each receive one copy of Sisterhood. Follow the instructions below to enter. You’ve got up […]
Tell Me How It Ends by VB Grey
Delia Maxwell is an international singing sensation, an icon of 1950s glamour who is still riding high on the new 60s scene. Adored by millions, all men want to be with her, all women want to be her. But one woman wants it maybe a little too much… Lily Brooks has watched Delia all her […]
Tell Me How It Ends by VB Grey
Delia Maxwell is an international singing sensation, an icon of 1950s glamour who is still riding high on the new 60s scene, adored by millions. All men want to be with her, all women want to be her. But one woman wants it maybe a little too much… Lily Brooks has watched Delia all her […]
Tell Me How It Ends: writing a film noir novel
VB Grey pays homage to the post-war American movies that inspired her novel, Tell Me How It Ends. Tell Me How It Ends is set in London in that moment in 1963 when the 1950s finally gave way to the Swinging Sixties. The young men and women who swept to fame in music, film, photography […]