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HWA Crown Awards 2018: The Winners
Historian and Broadcaster Kate Williams presented the Historical Writers’ Association Crown Awards for 2018 at a party at Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury. The winner of the Debut Crown for 2018 was Estoril by Dejan Tiago-Stankovic, the Non-Fiction... more
HWA Crowns 2018: The Shortlists
HWA Debut Crown Shortlist 2018 The Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton Populated by a cast of celebrated eighteenth-century painters jockeying for fame and fortune, this delightful tale of high art and low fraud is a celebration of the alchemy... moreThe HWA Crowns Longlist 2018
The HWA Crowns Longlist Thirty six remarkable books will fight it out in the race for the 2018 HWA Crowns, as the longlists for the HWA Crowns 2018 are announced. “Historical Writing is an important part of our culture and also a vital way of... moreauthor showcase
Emily Hauser
Emily Hauser is an award-winning classicist and the author of the acclaimed Golden Apple trilogy, For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner and For the Immortal. Featured on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and The Guardian alongside Colm Tóibín and Natalie Haynes, she is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Exeter and has won multiple awards including the University of Cambridge Chancellor's Medal. She lives in Devon with her... more
Vayu Naidu
Trained in epic literature as Performance Storytelling, Vayu writes, lives in and loves London. When she was appointed the first 'Sage in Residence' at Eton College working on heroism across epic literatures, she completed her first novel Sita’s Ascent (Penguin India: 2013). It was launched at Jaipur Literature Festival, India. This novel is a reimagining of the circumstances and resilience about an iconic woman, twice exiled. It was... more
Ruadh Butler
Ruadh Butler was born in Derry and grew up in Tyrone. He studied sciences in Northern Ireland, business in the US, and journalism in London before working in newsrooms, bars, and laboratories, as a security guard, musician, and a lifeguard. A keen reader of historical fiction, he began writing about his Norman ancestors during his lunch hour and, a year later, found that he had completed the first draft of his debut novel, Swordland. Published... more
Paul Hill
Paul Hill has been writing history books about Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman warfare for eighteen years. His first solo publication in 2004 The Age of Athelstan - Britain's Forgotten History became a bestseller in a short space of time. Paul has explored the strengths and weaknesses of the western military powers of the medieval period in each of his books, and has recently branched into a long overdue analysis of how one particular crusading... more
