You Are Elizabeth Bennet
The author Emma Campbell Webster invites you to step into a Jane Austen novel
Historical Fiction
A collection of 13 Posts
What Matters in Jane Austen?
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'
Fire at the Guildhall
Leonora Nattrass takes us back to 18th century Cornwall and a brewing political scandal
The Endeavour
Tom Hindle's debut mystery is set on a ship full of suspects, with two detectives. And one killer
Life and Death
Sean Lusk's spellbinding tale of one young man’s quest for the truth in the 18th century
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?
The Fact of Who I Was
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