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Founded in 1997 in the United Kingdom by bookseller, editor, and historical novel enthusiast Richard Lee, [3] the HNS's foundational membership included such authors as Joanna Trollope, Melvyn Bragg, and Bernard Cornwell. [4] The first of many author events organized by the HNS was held in 1999 at Kirby Hall during the History in Action meeting ...
The ARA Historical Novel Prize is an Australian novel competition organised and run by the Historical Novel Society Australasia. The first prize was awarded in 2020 and is awarded "only for published historical novels, that is, novels written in the Historical Fiction genre." [1] The 2020 Prize only awarded novels in the Adult category.
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.
The best historical novels of 2024 do all this and more, covering many millennia as they take us from ancient Greece to Shakespearean London to Cold War Europe. How are we classifying a period piece?
The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. Many authors mix historical fiction with sci-fi, but Whitehead’s take on a truly successful Civil War network to freedom has to be one of the best ...
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is a British literary award founded in 2010. [1] At £25,000, it is one of the largest literary awards in the UK. [2] The award was created by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were closely linked to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, who is generally considered the originator of historical fiction with the novel Waverley in 1814.
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.
Bernard Cornwell OBE (born 23 February 1944) is a British-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign.He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe.