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A Star Falls in Memphis
This story was runner up for our 1998 Explore! Prize (sponsored by the travel company of that name) and judged by Hilary Mantel. It ...Read Article
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 ...Read Article
Writing Your Bestseller – tips by Bernard Cornwell
BERNARD CORNWELL gives insights into the machinery of the bestseller. It is, I know, as unseemly as it is ungracious to gloat, but ...Read Article
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 the Dark ...Read Article
Stepping Stones
An interview with Elizabeth Chadwick Elizabeth Chadwick, whose latest paperback The Champion has been shortlisted for the RNA Book of the Year, explains ...Read Article
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 already ...Read Article
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 Midshipman Nathaniel Drinkwater in ...Read Article
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 ivry ...Read Article
