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Historical Fiction at Henningham Family Press

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The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2021 has longlisted the first book in our Historiographic Fictions series: Mr. Beethoven by Paul Griffiths. The Prize celebrates fiction set over 60 years ago. Which of our books should fans of historical fiction investigate and (ahem) qualify for free UK postage? There’s been an explosion of lively
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The Blackbird: a round robin

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Our first Blog Tour has been a huge success thanks to these wonderful reviewers: Claire Allen really nails what it’s like to Care for someone… Her descriptions throughout the book are just so perfect. Years Of Reading Selfishly Claire Allen also did a short reading, our thanks go to Clare Reynolds for broadcasting this via
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Sarah Crewe and Claire Allen discuss Liverpool, echoes and male violence: #BlogTour

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The poetry collection that most impressed us in 2018 was Floss by Sarah Crewe (Aquifer). Crewe compounds feminism with a psychogeography of Liverpool. At HFP we sometimes describe psychogeography as “going somewhere to see what isn’t there”. By adding female and working class history, Crewe raises the question of why particular things are not there,
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The Blackbird pre-sale launches on Unbound

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Pre-order Claire Allen’s novel by 15th June and add your name to the back of the book! Last night we launched the pre-sale for our next Historiographic Fiction on David Collard’s Leap in the Dark programme. Claire did a wonderful reading, then we got to ask her some questions about the characters, Alzheimer’s, the themes
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