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A Renaissance expert recommends her favourite historical fiction.
Iconic murderers such as Martha Rendell electrify our imaginations and passions. The turn of the century case demonstrates why fiction can be such an effective vessel for history.
‘History and fiction journey together and separately into the past; they are a tag team, sometimes taking turns, sometimes working in tandem.’ Enjoy the second part of our series, Writing History.
The runaway success of Ali Smith’s How to be Both signals a new and original approach to 21st-century historical fiction.
Historical fiction is booming. The much-publicised success of Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites, Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries and Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is just the tip of the iceberg for a genre that rivals…
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Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, English and Creative Writing, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor in British Colonial History, University of Leeds
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Kidman Chair in Australian Studies and Director, JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Adelaide University
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