T he Tudors are certainly having a moment in popular culture, but some depictions of their namesake time period are more true ...

From Tudor England to the White House, read the unmissable fiction that’s inspired by history. Conjure up some of your favourite books and we can guarantee some of them will have their roots in ...

Two of the six books on the shortlist for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction are by Irish authors: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, set in Butte, Montana, in 1891, and Ferdia ...

The Tudor period offers rare opportunities ... short stories and historical fiction. She wrote 14 novels and was a two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize for her bestselling novels, Wolf Hall ...