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This episode is all about history, specifically historical fiction. In this episode:

Barbara Erskine talks about her new novel The Dream Weavers.

Dave McCall (AKA David Ebsworth) and Holly Thorpe talk about the importance of historical fiction to them. You can find information about Dave's books here  http://www.davidebsworth.com/ and the link to the Young Walter Scott Prize is here https://www.walterscottprize.co.uk/young-walter-scott-prize/ 

Rebecca Hill talks about how The Last Kingdom series of boom/3nc9tmmr oks changed her life.  Rebecca  shares her favourite historical fiction reads on Good Reads at https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/3639817-rebecca?shelf=historical-fiction 

Our book recommendations include:

Paul Morley - A sound mind, how I fell in love with classical music...

Clare Whitfield - People of abandoned character

Kiana Davenport - Shark dialogues

Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet

Charles Dickens - A tale of two cities

Markus Zusak - The book thief

For more information about the podcast go to https://www.bookylicious.com/