History and fiction: writers, their research, worlds and stories

Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture.

How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel.

This book explores the nature of the author's relationship with history and fiction - often using writers' own words - as well as the role history plays in fiction.

Focusing on genre fiction, this study considers key issues in the relationship between history and fiction, such as how writers contextualise the history they use in their fiction and how they incorporate historical research.