Crown Awards 2025 non fiction longlist: Naples 1944: Keith Lowe Few English-language historians have tackled the messy horror of the end of the war in Italy. Keith Lowe uncovers the truth in a fascinating, unflinching survey of a brutalised city #HWACrowns25 18/ @WmCollinsBooks @KeithLoweAuthor

HWA 2025 longlist Crown Awards non-fiction. Demon of Unrest: Erik Larson Using first-hand testimony, the complex and myriad circumstances which led to the American Civil War, and a new perspective on those events, in an accessible and enlightening read #HWACrowns25 17/ @WmCollinsBooks @exlarson

HWA non fiction Longlist. The Endless Country by Sami Kent This history of the first 100 years of the Republic of Turkey is told from the perspective of the author’s family. A vivid, colourful and moving account of a tumultuous period in Turkey’s history #HWACrowns25 16/ @SamiKent @picadorbooks

HWA Longlist: The Scapegoat by Lucy Hughes-Hallett The excitement and danger of James I’s court is alive in Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s bio of the Duke of Buckingham. A profound insight into the terrifying world of the Jacobean aristocracy and a complex king #HWACrowns25 15/ @4thEstateBooks @LucyHH

Congratulations to all on the HWA non-fiction longlist 2025!

Enjoy publication day Lesley McDowell! Love and Other Poisons Out Today. The true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Scottish socialite who was accused of murdering her lover and the fascinating mystery around her sudden disappearance years later. ow.ly/C51k50WqOpH.

Congrats on publication day, Caroline Scott! The Best of Intentions out now. Gloucestershire, 1932: Gardener Robert Bardsley loves life in ‘Greenfields’, a community of artists and idealists, but they are soon threatened by the arrival of a developer. ow.ly/ms4550WqOOM

Congrats this publication day, Jo Romero! Power Couples of the Tudor Age is out now. In Tudor England power was shared. From Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, to Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, and many more. The book demands acknowledgement of women’s roles. www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Power-Couple...

This post is to launch the Blue Sky Account of The Historical Writers Association. Happy 2025 everyone!

Wishing all you Historical Writers a bright, creative and successful 2025, filled with much goodness!