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A Star Falls in Memphis
First published in the Winter 1998 edition of Solander magazine – copyright remains with the author from Solander 1998 Michel…
The most gruelling, the most pure fantastic hell…
Beryl Bainbridge, whose latest novel Master Georgie has been shortlisted for the Booker prize, recently gave a talk at Dillons, Exeter. Richard Lee…
Writing Your Bestseller
BERNARD CORNWELL gives insights into the machinery of the bestseller. It is, I know, as unseemly as it is ungracious…
A Light in the Dark Ages: An Interview with Helen Hollick
My first experience of Helen Hollick’s Arthurian trilogy was as a reviewer for this Society. Despite my own passion for…
Stepping Stones
An interview with Elizabeth Chadwick Elizabeth Chadwick, whose latest paperback The Champion has been shortlisted for the RNA Book of…
Still in the Saddle
Where the Western came from, and where it’s going To hear some folks talk, you’d think the Western novel had…
Nathaniel Drinkwater and the British Maritime Novel
The English tradition of Writers at Sea When my first novel was reviewed in 1980, I discovered the introduction of…
Roman History Through a Hundred Novels
James Hawking surveys Roman history through fiction I know histhry isn’t thrue Hinnessy, because it ain’t like what I see…
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