Another time and place - researching and writing historical fiction

National Writing Day - Author Talk: Another Time and Place

Join us in person at 11:15 (doors open at 11am) for an exciting chat with the author, Lucienne Boyce, about researching and writing historical fiction.

How does setting a story in the past effect it? How do you approach the research? Which comes first, history or story? In this talk, Lucienne will be looking at researching and writing historical fiction. After the talk, there’ll be an opportunity to join Lucienne for a short writing workshop.

Lucienne Boyce is a historical novelist and women’s suffrage historian. Her first historical novel, To The Fair Land (SilverWood Books), an eighteenth-century thriller set in Bristol and the South Seas, was published in 2012. Her second novel, Bloodie Bones: A Dan Foster Mystery (SilverWood Books, 2015) is the first of the Dan Foster Mysteries and follows the fortunes of a Bow Street Runner who is also an amateur pugilist. Bloodie Bones was winner of the Historical Novel Society Indie Award 2016 and was also a semi finalist for the M M Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction 2016. The Dan Foster Mysteries continued – Bow Street Runner and amateur pugilist Dan Foster strives to bring justice to an unjust world. From the country mansions of the powerful to the teeming rookeries of Georgian London, Dan tackles all challenges with guile, courage – and a quick left hook.

In 2013 Lucienne published The Bristol Suffragettes (SilverWood Books), a history of the suffragette movement in Bristol and the West Country. She regularly gives talks and leads walks about women’s suffrage.