Historical fiction

Historical fiction

The Pretender is the most enjoyable historical novel I’ve read in years

Jo Harkin fills the gap in the record with enormous brio

Andrew Taylor

Wolves of Winter focuses on the brutality of the past

Dan Jones confidently evokes the whorehouses, the illnesses, the death and depravity

Philip Womack

The difficulties of writing historical fiction

Historians ask ‘What?’ Novelists ask ‘What if?’

Dan Jones

Robert Harris’s gripping new novel is let down by anachronisms

Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris reviewed

Henry Hitchings

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