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A summer of reading: inside the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award
As mentioned before, I have spent much of this summer reading submissions for the Historical Writers’ Association annual non-fiction prize, alongside my fellow judges Mel Backe-Hansen, Charlie Corn, Philippa Lacey, Matt Lewis and Jo Romero...
The writer’s bookshelf: Carolyn Boyd
Carolyn Boyd is an award-winning French food and travel writer. She contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times, National Geographic Traveller, BBC Travel and many other titles.
She is the author of Amuse Bouche: How to Eat Your Way A...
The writer’s bookshelf: Jem Bloomfield
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Jem Bloomfield is a writer, critic and academic based at the University of Nottingham, where he is Assistant Professor of Literature. He is the author of three books exploring the literary...
Microhistories #19: the trial and execution of Jean Calas
Tragedy and intolerance in pre-Revolutionary France
It was on the evening of October 13 1761, shortly after 9:30pm, that Pierre Calas discovered the body of his older brother, 29-year-old Marc-Antoine, hanging in a downstairs doorway of th...
The writer’s bookshelf: Ollie Randall
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Ollie Randall is a writer, historian and cartoonist. His first book, Writers in Whites, explored the relationship between cricket and English literary culture from the 1880s to the 1960s....
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