Ian McEwan published his first novel in the late 1970s, but it wasn’t until the late eighties that he began to sneak into the spotlight, with his 1987 novel The Child in Time winning a Whitbread Award and his 1998 novel Amsterdam winning the Man Booker.
What can you do when your well-researched historical fact just doesn’t feel realistic? Well, you’re facing the Tiffany problem.
If you want to win at historical fiction, your readers are going to need to feel like they fell into a deep sleep and woke up in a different world. To create that different world, you’re going to not only need to have all your facts straight, you’re going to need to paint a picture with all the right colors.
Political fiction is a difficult thing to discuss (let alone write!) due to its sheer breadth. Both ‘A Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’ are technically works of political fiction, and yet the two novels have very little in common.
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