Historical Fiction

  • 24.07 Madeline Miller

    24.07 Madeline Miller

    ‘Who wants to live forever?’, as Queen sang in 1986. On her birthday, let’s explore that idea through Madeline MIller’s retellings (with a little help from Tennyson, Edna St Vincent Millay, and Stephen King).

  • 06.07 Hilary Mantel

    06.07 Hilary Mantel

    Hilary Mantel asks us to consider that hardly anyone is more vulnerable than ‘the power behind the throne’.