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Deborah Harkness, professor of history at the University of Southern California, has just published the final novel in her All Souls Trilo...

Bruce Holsinger and Nancy Bilyeau, two of the leading medieval novelists, had the chance to meet up in New York City and have a conversat...

Authors Philippa Gregory and Wayne Johnston can tell you that historical novelists have to deal with some odd complaints, most of which st...

Author Jeri Westerson has done it again: She's managed to craft another fascinating, entertaining, engaging book in a style that'...

I grew up on an early edition of Dungeons & Dragons and John Boorman’s Excalibur. The image of the tin-can knight — clanking and rattl...

Mercifully, Annabel Lyon has left her iPhone in her hotel room, which renders her unable to display a treasured photograph of the Iron Ag...

What made you choose to write about Anne Neville?   She absolutely embodies what happened to so many people in these turbulent 14 years ...

Best selling historical novelist Angus Donald from Tunbridge Wells is now on the fourth volume of his series concerning the exploits of Ro...

Mark Twain’s obsession with Joan of Arc has to rank among the most baffling and least talked about enigmas in American literature. Even fo...

“Peaceweaver,” the recently published second book in Rebecca Barnhouse’s historical-fantasy series aimed at young adult readers, picks up wh...

Italian author Umberto Eco, turning 80 today, can boast decades of literary success, but he got a late start in life as a novelist. Many w...

Anna Elliott is well versed in the lore and legends of the Dark Ages. “Sunrise of Avalon,” the final book in the historical fiction and fa...

By Sharon Penman Historical fiction invites us to experience the exotic and the unknown while confirming our common humanity. I do not bel...

Like Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Mary Malloy is an adventurous woman. She has hiked across England in the footsteps of the "Canterbury ...

Cassandra Clark tells Sarah Freeman how growing up in East Yorkshire inspired her acclaimed series of medieval mysteries. Cassandra Clark ...

Lincoln Castle will open its gates and transport visitors back in time at the weekend, transforming its grounds into a scene from Medieval E...

The Iron Throne A Song of Ice and Fire in the original has become an HBO series, this dark fantasy saga written by George R. R. Martin, whos...

When 18-year-old Cayla Kluver set out to write her first novel in 2006, she merely wanted to create a fun story for readers to enjoy. But ...

The long-awaited fifth novel in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, entitled A Dance with Dragons , was released this week. The work, writte...