Tag: historical fiction

  • Editorial: DHP’s top historical novels

    Editorial: DHP’s top historical novels

    Summer may be decidedly over, but reading for pleasure doesn’t have to be confined to the beach. Here are some of the DHP team’s favourite historical novels to keep you going as the evenings draw in.

  • Inside the Modernist mind: Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto (2019)

    Inside the Modernist mind: Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto (2019)

    By Sam Young (@Samyoung102)  Shiromi Pinto, Plastic Emotions (Influx Press, 2019), £9.99 Minnette de Silva was a remarkable individual. Sri Lanka’s first female architect and the first Asian woman to join the Royal Institute of British Architects, she pioneered the development of a ‘Regional Modernism’ style of urban design throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In…