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An asset of Caesar: The Commander's Blade in paperback alongside an author photo of Peter Gibbons.

Peter Gibbons on Caesar: The Commander's Blade

“The period of the late Republic provides unbelievable material for a historical fiction novel”

The ancient world has always been my favourite part of history to explore. Whilst my readers are more familiar with my books set in the Viking Age and Dark Ages Britain, I think the core elements of t…

21 Oct 2026
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Clare Whitfield on The Last Handmaid

“I wanted to creep into aspects of the legends surrounding Báthory”

There are so many wild myths and legends surrounding the very real person that was the Countess Erzsébet Báthory, it’s so obvious they cannot be true. As one of the perpetually curious, I wanted to fi…

08 Oct 2026
A photograph of the 4 books in the Agricola series alongside an author photograph of Simon Turney.

Simon Turney on Agricola: Conqueror

“I could very easily have filled two or even three paperbacks with the events of this period”

Actually, since I wrote a non-fiction biography of Agricola a few years earlier, I know his life and his world backwards and inside out, so crafting the character was more or less already done for me.…

03 Sept 2026
The Last Handmaid next to an author photo of Clare Whitfield.

Author letter

Clare Whitfield letter to readers

Dear Reader,For years, I thought I knew Countess Báthory: the blood-soaked woman of myth and legend. A monster of a woman said to have bathed in virgins’ blood to cheat time. The Lady Countess has ins…

05 Aug 2026
The Last Telegram of Mrs Hudson book jacket and photo of author Mattea Orr

Mattea Orr on The Last Telegram of Mrs Hudson

“What if Sherlock’s mother and a young Mrs. Hudson solved crimes, fell in love, and basically raised Sherlock?”

I was raised on Jeremy Brett as Sherlock (thanks, Mum and Dad!), but every new adaptation grabs my attention because Sherlock’s one of my all-time favorite characters. Benedict Cumberbatch? Elementary…

04 Aug 2026
The Knife Maker of Venice book jacket and photo of author David Gilman

David Gilman on The Knife Maker of Venice

“I am still in awe as to how all that brick, mortar and beauty were built on a swamp. There’s a story around every corner.”

My publisher, Nic Cheetham, caught me unawares during our annual meeting and asked me to write another standalone novel before the next volume in my Master of War series. I had nothing in mind, and th…

29 Jun 2026
A Beautiful Wat to Die book jacket alongside an image of the author, Eleni Kyriacou.

Eleni Kyriacou on A Beautiful Way to Die

“Perfection, glamour, beauty – is definitely not what you get once you scratch the surface”

Growing up, there was a notoriously salacious book that all of us read called Hollywood Babylon. It’s a sordid catalogue of Hollywood’s worst crimes, misfortunes and scandals, and recounts the downfal…

26 Feb 2026
A headshot of author, Dana Stabenow wearing a purple sweater and checked scarf. (c) Chris Arend Photography

Dana Stabenow on The Harvey Girl

“Even a cursory reading of history finds strong, smart women in every era”

For one thing, the parallels between that time and this are inescapable. I just read a book by a Stanford professor named Richard White who posits that the robber barons then weren’t all that smart or…

09 Feb 2026
Kane by Graham Hurley book jacket along side an image of Graham Hurley. Credit Laura Muños

Author interview

Graham Hurley on Kane, A Spoils of War novel

The writing has been the deepest pleasure. I came to the Spoils of War series having tunnelled out of the Crime Fiction gulag. Sixteen books was quite enough and I set myself the challenge of writing…

09 Jun 2025

Dana Stabenow on The Eye of Isis Series

“Tetisheri lives at the very heart of her time in crowded, bustling Alexandria”

I've been interested in her character since listening as a 12-year old to a vinyl recording of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, produced by The Marlowe Society with a cast that included Diana Rigg,…

13 Dec 2024
Introducing Dark Frontier

Introducing

Dark Frontier

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to write a western. I always enjoyed western movies and fell in love with the literary genre when I first read the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Do…

02 Aug 2024
Legends come to life sword of the war god

Tim Hodkinson on Sword of the War God

Legends come to life in an epic Norse adventure

Wodnas (Odin)   ‘Wodnas’ is the oldest form we have written evidence for of the name of the Norse god better known today as Odin. It was stamped in runes on a bracteate (a sort of medallion) dating f…

01 May 2024

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