Hilary Mantel's advice to young writers of historical fiction: learn your facts

Описание: "Learn your facts...but understand that there is more to history, and particularly more to historical fiction, than cold, hard data." The brilliant and much-missed Hilary Mantel, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize for her Cromwell trilogy books, offers this advice to young writers approaching historical fiction for the first time.

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