You Are Elizabeth Bennet with Emma Campbell Webster
The author Emma Campbell Webster invites you to step into a Jane Austen novel
Historical Fiction
A collection of 13 Posts
Jane Austen The Magical Novelist With John Mullan
250 years after she was born, Jane Austen continues to outwit her readers, as John Mullan explains
A Very Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O’Brian
We look back at the life of the 'greatest historical novelist of all time'
A Georgian General Election
Leonora Nattrass takes us back to eighteen-century Cornwall and to the scene of a brewing political scandal
Charles Town, 1718, in the Golden Age of Piracy
Julie Walker introduces us to Anne Bonny and Mary Read, adventurers at large
A Fatal Crossing on the Cruise Liner Endeavour
Tom Hindle's debut mystery is set on a ship full of suspects, with two detectives. And one killer
A Quaker Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War
This excerpt from Maggie Brookes's Act of Love and War follows the fortunes of a Quaker volunteer
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
Sean Lusk's spellbinding tale of one young man’s quest for the truth in eighteenth century London
On the Subject of Power and a Porkchop
Neil Blackmore introduces us to Francis Bacon, a politician in the court of King James I
Sixer for Twenty-seven Years
What happens when an enemy intelligence officer walks through the door?
Edith Suschitzky – the Soviet Spy Who Recruited Kim Philby
Drawing on the Secret Intelligence Files on Edith Tudor-Hart, this finely worked, evocative and beautifully tense novel – by the granddaughter of Kim Philby – tells the story of the woman behind the Third Man
My Name, if You Must Know, is Adele
Sophie Haydock's electrifying historical debut about four muses and the artist who shocked Vienna