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Historia - The HWA

Fortune-tellers, Fraudsters &amp; Fallen Women

The Wheatsheaf

Three best-selling historical authors, in conversation with media star and award-winning novelist A.J. West, about what choices were open to women in the past who weren't born into the right families and didn't choose conventional paths…Laura Shepherd-Robinson worked in politics for nearly twenty years before re-entering normal life to complete an MA in Creative Writing. Her debut novel, Blood &amp; Sugar, was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month and won the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown and the Specsavers/Crimefest Best Debut Novel prize. Her second novel, Daughters of Night, was shortlisted for the Theakstons Crime Book of the Year, the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award, and the HWA Gold Crown. The Square of Sevens is her third novel. She lives in London with her husband Adrian.Stacey Halls was born in 1989 and grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and has written for publications including the Guardian, Stylist, Psychologies, the Independent, the Sun and Fabulous. Her first book, The Familiars, was the bestselling debut hardback novel of 2019, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year. The Foundling, her second, was a Sunday Times bestseller, as was her third Mrs England. Mrs England was longlisted for the Portico Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and won the Women's Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures Award.Beezy Marsh is a Sunday Times top ten and international #1 bestselling author who spent years getting to know the families and friends of early Twentieth Century London’s notorious all-female gang of criminals, The Forty Thieves. Her research inspired her “Queen” trilogy for Orion in the U.K. and Harper Collins in North America.A.J. West's bestselling debut novel The Spirit Engineer won the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award, gaining international praise for its telling of a long-forgotten true story. An award-winning BBC newsreader and reporter, he has written for national newspapers and regularly appears on network television discussing his writing and the historical context of contemporary events. A passionate historical researcher, he writes at The London Library and museum archives around the world. To connect with AJ and discover more about his research, visit www.ajwestauthor.com <a href="http://linktr.ee/ajwest" title="http://linktr.ee/ajwest" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">linktr.ee/ajwest</a>

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