I love reading books set in distant countries that I’m unlikely to visit – whether the action takes place in the present day or back in time. Even better when those books have been writ…

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I'm delighted to welcome Clare Flynn back to the blog. She's the author of eighteen historical novels and is about halfway through her nineteenth. published by Storm, Canelo and herself, her books…

I thought it might be interesting to recreate the routes taken independently and together by Norton and Stella in The Star of Ceylon.

I’m delighted to welcome Clare Flynn to the Fictionfire blog. Clare has just published her eighteenth book, The Star of Ceylon . In her novels, she often focuses on the experiences of travellers ...

I'm delighted to welcome Alison Morton to the blog today. Alison, who lives in France, is the author of the popular Roma Nova alternative history thrillers. She is now publishing the third in her cont...

Hey! Do you remember the Harvey Weinstein case? Non Disclosure Agreements silenced victims of abuse - and it's not just happening in Hollywood. They're used in the UK to cover up all kinds of miscondu...

I am a big, big fan of Clare Flynn. Her books are the kind of books I read in one sitting with a major “DO NOT DISTURB” sign over my head. Clare blends effortless prose with historical tidbits, casual...

As long as human civilisation has existed, a dark stain has existed right alongside: slavery. Sophisticated cultures have arisen and functioned based on slavery. Ancient empires, the predecessors of m...

I’ve only visited Canada once – a road trip in 1999 to the Canadian Rockies. Memorably, I decided early one morning to leave the main highway in heavy snow to take a scenic route to my final destinati...

I’ve only visited Canada once – a road trip in 1999 to the Canadian Rockies. Memorably, I decided early one morning to leave the main highway in heavy snow to take a scenic route to my final destinati...

In light of the recent revelation that Meta used millions of pirated books to train its AI, we are writing to express our deep concern about this alleged unfair and unauthorised use of our copyrighted...

Cryssa Bazos is a 17th century enthusiast – as am I. We do not agree on Prince Rupert, she tends to lean Royalist where I am more Parliamentarian, but those minor differences aside, I find her books s...

Sounds like a great title for a book or a film, doesn’t it? Sadly, it’s a reflection of something terrible that’s going on in the publishing world right now and, as such, there ar…

I’m delighted to welcome Jean Gill onto the blog today.  Jean is a friend and the author of books across multiple genres from poetry to Young Adult fiction, cookery to travel, dogs to fantasy. She is ...

In 2024, Liz St.John’s latest’s book, The King’s Intelligencer, was selected as Book of the Year by the Coffee Pot Book Club. So well-deserved! It was one of my top three reads in 2024, and it is set ...

I met Deborah Swift well over a decade ago at a Historical Novel Society Conference. She had recently published The Gilded Lily, and we sort of bonded over tea and the 17th century – as one does. Sinc...

Well, dear peeps, today it is my turn to introduce you to a lady from the past, and after some back-and-forth I locked down on Eleanor of Castile. And yes, I have written about her before as she is a ...

Several years ago, I read Men of the Cross by Char Newcomb and just loved it. Not only did she bring the times of the crusades to vivid life – I love her depiction of Richard Lionheart – but she creat...