20th century
Deborah Swift talks Home Front Girls with Rosie Goodwin, the new Catherine Cookson
Rosie Goodwin has been billed as ‘the new Catherine Cookson’. Her latest book Home Front Girls is just out. Deborah…
The ghosts of wartime past: Simone St. James’ 1920s Gothic fiction
SJ: An Inquiry into Love and Death is set in post-WWI England, and the war still exerts a strong pull…
New freedoms, new dangers: Susanna Jones’ Edwardian women
The Edwardian era is the setting for Susanna Jones’ latest novel, the psychological thriller When Nights Were Cold. The protagonists…
History & Film: Lust & Greed — Double Indemnity
When one speaks of film noir (“black film”), it’s a genre that conjures immediate associations – highly stylized American films…
Haunted Triangles: When the “Other Woman” is a First Wife
Remember the insane Bertha Rochester setting fire to Thornhill? Or the murdered Rebecca de Winter trapped in an underwater grave?…
New Voices: Joanna Campbell Slan, Charlotte Betts, Liz Harris & Maryanne O’Hara
Joanna Campbell Slan, Charlotte Betts, Liz Harris, and Maryanne O’Hara describe the seeds of inspiration that blossomed into their novels.…
Red Pencil: Fred Stemme’s The Lieutenant’s Whistle
Revision, revision, revision Cindy Vallar analyzes the work behind polished final manuscripts. In this issue, she profiles Fred Stemme’s The…
Here Be Dragons…And Forgotten Books
Carlos Ruiz Zafón is Spain’s most successful literary export. An urban history buff, composer, scriptwriter, dragon collector, and comic devotee,…
Twentieth Century Blues
As I was to give a workshop at last year’s HNS Conference I emailed my resumé to the excellent Towse…
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