"What if" stories – historical fiction?

Historical fiction is a broad church; a re-telling real events, quasi-biographical fiction, romantic, adventure, fantastical and detective stories, tales from the cave to the 1960s and set in every country and social situation you can imagine. And within that mix are counter-factual, alternative history stories, the ‘what ifs’ which project a possible different timeline from […]

Anna Reviews: PERFIDITAS by Alison Morton

Sometimes, somebody writes a review that knocks your socks off. Sometimes it’s about a book that YOU wrote. I submitted PERFIDITAS to ‘The Review‘. Read what happened…

Anna Reviews: Perfiditas by Alison Morton

Review by Anna Belfrage

To write alternative history carries some likeness to writing fantasy, in that the world creation is a fundamental […]

Writing a prequel - revealing secrets

AURELIA, the fourth Roma Nova thriller, is out in the world now and drawing lovely compliments and reviews in the UK and from the US. Keep ‘em coming!

One question I’ve been asked as a guest on blogs during May is why the story of Aurelia Mitela, and […]