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Through a Different Lens:
Writing Historical Fiction: Maria McCann,
Emma Darwin, R. N. Morris & Rose Melikan
LF203
| MON |
| 20 |
| SEP |
Booking opens 1st July 2010
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc.
Many would say that we’re living in a golden age of historical fiction. But why do readers love to inhabit the past, and why do so many writers love writing it? This panel brings together four historical novelists, who between them write crime, romantic adventure, literary and crossover fiction, to talk about what they write and why.
Maria McCann’s novels conjure up the dark, turbulent times of the English Civil War. Her new novel The Wilding (Faber) was longlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.
Emma Darwin’s latest novel A Secret Alchemy (Headline Review) recreates the violent, glamorous world of the Princes in the Tower. It was named one of The Times Best Paperbacks of 2009.
Roger Morris’s four historical crime novels are set in Dostoevsky’s 1860s St Petersburg. Acclaim for his debut A Gentle Axe (Faber) was followed by two CWA accolades for A Vengeful Longing.
Rose Melikan’s historical adventures highlight the secret warfare waged during the Napoleonic era as Mary Finch and Captain Robert Holland match wits with French agents and English traitors. Romance Reviews Today called her The Blackstone Key (Sphere) a ‘page-turning, excitement-filled mystery’.
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc.
Many would say that we’re living in a golden age of historical fiction. But why do readers love to inhabit the past, and why do so many writers love writing it? This panel brings together four historical novelists, who between them write crime, romantic adventure, literary and crossover fiction, to talk about what they write and why.
Maria McCann’s novels conjure up the dark, turbulent times of the English Civil War. Her new novel The Wilding (Faber) was longlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.
Emma Darwin’s latest novel A Secret Alchemy (Headline Review) recreates the violent, glamorous world of the Princes in the Tower. It was named one of The Times Best Paperbacks of 2009.
Roger Morris’s four historical crime novels are set in Dostoevsky’s 1860s St Petersburg. Acclaim for his debut A Gentle Axe (Faber) was followed by two CWA accolades for A Vengeful Longing.
Rose Melikan’s historical adventures highlight the secret warfare waged during the Napoleonic era as Mary Finch and Captain Robert Holland match wits with French agents and English traitors. Romance Reviews Today called her The Blackstone Key (Sphere) a ‘page-turning, excitement-filled mystery’.