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A Legacy of Spies is a John le Carré novel published in 2017. It’s a parallel story to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, within a…
The Guns of the South, written by Harry Turtledove and published in 1992, is one of the classic alternative history novels. It weaves a story around a fascinating premise: ‘What…
Bring the Jubilee, written by Ward Moore and published in 1953, is one of the classic alternative history novels. Set in the mid-twentieth century, it describes a world…
Olivia Joules, written by Helen Fielding, the author of the Bridget Jones novels, and published in 2004, is a comedy-romance-spy-thriller about a journalist who suspects a millionaire businessman may also…
Alternative History is a genre that often seems dominated by male authors. But there are plenty of great alternative history novels written by women too. In fact, several…
Watchmen, written by Alan Moore, drawn by Dave Gibbons and coloured by John Higgins, was serialised in 1986 and published as a graphic novel in 1987. Hugely commercially and critically successful, critics have long…
Public speaking is one of the principal ways authors promote their books. But speaking to large groups terrifies many people and they do it badly. As a commercially published author,…
Alternative history is becoming much better known because of two TV series: SS-GB and The Man in the High Castle, both set in a world where Nazi Germany won the Second World…
King Solomon’s Mines was one of the first of the ‘lost world’ novels. H Rider Haggard published it in 1885 to immense commercial success. It has been hugely influential…
The Coming Race, written in 1871 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, was one of the first lost world novels and a prototype science-fiction novel. Weirdly, the novel also played a role in…