When it’s done well, historical fiction transports you to a particular time, place and setting through the eyes of its characters. The best historical fiction makes me want to learn more about the period or the characters. I try to refrain from googling while reading a book but if I’m ...
Jeane Slone has published four historical novels: 1. She Was a WWII Photographer Behind Enemy Lines. 2. She Flew Bombers During WW II. 3. She Built Ships During WW II. 4. She Was an American Spy During WW II.
Carol MacLean lives in the Glasgow area. She began by writing pocket novels, having 18 published before deciding to write a historical saga. She enjoys weaving social history into fiction and imagining how life must have been for ordinary people living through different times. When she’s not w...
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Kirsty Manning:It is a tricky thing when you are writing historical fiction because you’re always trying to negotiate how far to lean to the truth. You need to immerse people in a world that is true and create a world for them.
The World According to Garp (paperback fiction)John Irving Birdy (first novel)William Wharton The Green Ripper (hardcover mystery)John D. MacDonald Stained Glass (paperback mystery)William F. Buckley, Jr. Jem (hardcover science fiction)Frederick Pohl ...
Billiards at Half-Past Nine, novel by Heinrich Böll, first published in German as Billard um halbzehn in 1959. In its searing examination of the moral crises of postwar Germany, the novel resembles Böll’s other fiction; its interior monologues and
tellingUSA Todaythat he didn't want a purely procedural plot. "We wanted to explore that idea of people coming together to create a larger fiction who are then changed and lost in the fiction they are creating," says Madden. OurOperation MincemeatLove Story Videoexplains the historical accuracy...