Historical

Your story is set in the past, with your plot and the actions of your characters in keeping with the time period you have chosen. Works of historical fiction may or may not feature real historical figures. Umberto Eco, Hilary Mantel, Ken Follett and Philippa Gregory have written popular titles in this genre.

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Common Threads Of The Past: Interlinking Novels

Kerry Young

26th January 2017

Edited

16th October 2020

Author Kerry Young discusses her three interlinking novels, and the role her writing plays in bringing to light an under-represented group in fiction.

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Becoming Your Character

Simon Turney

21st September 2016

Edited

16th September 2020

We all read books and watch movies – really good books and movies, I might add – where we feel like we have lived through a great event with the...

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Interview with Sally Gardner

Writers & Artists

1st September 2016

Edited

24th January 2021

Sally on finding inspiration to write

I think I was always born with a head full of stories and I - my first conscious memory is telling...

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Inventing A Genre: Culinary Gothic

Martine Bailey

13th June 2016

Edited

4th August 2022

How does it feel to create a new literary genre? Author Martine Bailey discusses her particular writing style that led to the creation of the '...

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Learning From The Masters

Annabel Abbs

19th May 2016

Edited

23rd September 2020

Debut author Annabel Abbs talks learning the writing craft via osmosis, with Joyce, Beckett and DH Lawrence as inspiration.

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Writing In The Past

James Wilson

17th May 2016

Edited

16th September 2020

Anyone writing a novel set in the past faces a number of related challenges. One is the siren call of hindsight: the temptation to litter the story...