Whether you're spending the summer stretched out on the beach, posted up on a cabin porch or simply soaking up the sunshine from your own backyard, there's nothing quite like a good book to keep you ...

When it comes to movies and television, we can't help but love going back in time to a period far before us. Whether it be the costumes, the drama set against these faraway backdrops or the glimpse ...

5 works of historical fiction to transport you to another time New novels by Louise Hare, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Christine Wells, Kerri Maher and Tan Twan Eng September 8, 2023 More than 1 year ago ...

Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers – Giles Milton, Simon Sebag ...

Historical fiction is often based on the counterfactual, and explores what could have happened. Writers of fiction make absolutely no claims to objective reality or factually correct representation.

Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall (2009) is an example of historical fiction. This novel is based on real people and historical events in the court of Henry VIII, but Hilary Mantel also uses her ...

We’re drowning in historical fiction Books about the past get most of the prestige. That’s boxing writers in — and some more so than others. By Craig Fehrman Updated November 2, 2023, 3:00 a.m.

McCrea talks about writing research, and blending fact and fiction. I came across Lizzie Burns in Tristram Hunt’s biography of Friedrich Engels. It was a chance meeting.

We enjoy clever anachronism or historical revisionism (as in Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad). We also enjoy the sensation of moral superiority we gain by looking back at less enlightened times.