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Sunday 26 October 2014

19 & 29 November - HWA-Previously Events: 3. 'Secrets and Signposts: the Past within the Present' and 'Writing women Back into History'.

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1Secrets and Signposts: the Past within the Present. 
Wednesday 19th November at 18:00. Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh



 Tom Harper                                                    and Iain Pears

Wednesday 19th November at 18:00. Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh

Tom Harper and Iain Pears write multi-layered novels, seamlessly intertwining stories across different eras of history from the ancient world to the present day. Join them as they discuss how they tackle these complex books, peeling back layers to reveal why the past is never truly dead and buried. 






 Female Characters – Writing Women back into History

Thursday 20th November at 18:00. Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh

Imogen Robertson, Samantha Norman and Sara Sheridan





History is full of fascinating characters, male and female, who have for generations been dismissed as irrelevant by the historical establishment. Now a new approach to social history is beginning to make some of their stories available and historical writers are finding new perspectives and people with which to populate their fiction and enthral their readers. Come to hear three female writers of historical fiction discuss what inspires and informs their writing and how they bring the women of history back to their rightful place - centre stage alongside the men. 












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