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All eyes on the prize…
In the final week before the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize is announced we take a look at…
Stories of Serendipity:Writing Historical Fiction Series Featuring author Marina Maxwell
Welcome to week six of the stories of serendipity series where authors share their tales of serendipity and synchronicity while…
Stories of Serendipity: Writing Historical Fiction Series Featuring author Alana White
Welcome to week five of the stories of serendipity series where authors share their tales of serendipity and synchronicity while…
“If music be the food of love …”: Julie Thomas’s The Keeper of Secrets
What gives Julie Thomas’s first novel, The Keeper of Secrets, its global appeal? The opening words of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night…
Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord: exclusive extract
None of us knew the country, or which way we should go, so I simply followed the Roman road until…
Snarling back to life: Bernard Cornwell on Pagan Lord, Uhtred’s latest blood-drenched outing
TLL: I would like to kick off this interview by getting your thoughts on genre reach. I have noticed that…
Stories of Serendipity: Writing Historical Fiction Series Featuring author Glen Craney
Welcome to week four of our series, where each Sunday until the end of October 2013 I’ll share a writer’s…
Stories of Serendipity: Writing Historical Fiction Series Featuring author Erika Mailman
Welcome to the third week of our series where writers share stories of serendipity and synchronicity while writing, researching and…
Stories of Serendipity: Writing Historical Fiction Series Featuring author Essie Fox
Welcome to the second installment of “Stories of Serendipity: Writing Historical Fiction,” where each Sunday for eight weeks I share…
Christian Cameron talks Chivalry, the Hundred Years War and the Ill-Made Knight with Justin Lindsay
Christian Cameron is best known for his fiction set in ancient Greece, as seen in both his Tyrant and Long…
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