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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
Chris Bishop
Chris Bishop was born in London in 1951. After a successful career as a Chartered Surveyor, he retired to concentrate on writing, combining this with his lifelong interest in history. He is the author of a series entitled The Shadow of the Raven, which is set at the time of Alfred the Great. Book One, Blood and Destiny was published in 2017, Book Two, The Warrior with the Pierced Heart in 2018 and The Final Reckoning in... more
JD Davies
Having worked on the Restoration navy as an academic historian for 25 years, while harbouring since childhood a hankering to write novels, it took a remarkably long time for the penny to drop and for me to write a story set in the era I had researched so extensively. The upshot was Gentleman Captain, the first of the ‘journals of Matthew Quinton’. Matthew is based on a very real breed, the young men of high birth who were given command of... more
Lorna Cook
Lorna Cook writes dual-timeline stories that blend secrets of the past with the present. Her first novel, The Forgotten Village, is set in the real village of Tyneham in Dorset, requisitioned in entirety in World War Two and never returned. The story moves between 1943 and present day as secrets about what happened on requisition day are finally revealed. Lorna lives by the sea with her husband, two small daughters and a demanding dog... more
Claire Mabilat
Claire Mabilat is a British music historian living near Paris, in France. Following her PhD in music history at the University of Durham, she lectured there part-time and started to publish. She has chapters on orientalism in two books in the series ‘Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ (Ashgate, now Routledge), and has also published the history book Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts,... more
