HOW THE GHOSTS OF ROME CAME TO ME Very soon into the writing of my last novel, My Father’s House, I realised that the book would be one of a series of three novels set in Rome in 1943 and ’44, at the time of the resistance to the German occupation of the city. The Ghosts of Rome is the second in that series. The books are designed to stand alone or as part of a loose trilogy. People from …
Category: Historical Fiction
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana. He shares a few words …
In writing Sisters under the Rising Sun, I have tried to capture the true story of over 500 women and children through the eyes of two main characters. In Feb …
Most of the story of my new novel, An Invitation To The Kennedys, takes place over the course of a week, in the summer of 1938, at the country estate …
I’m often asked where I get the ideas for my books, and the answer is different every time. The Last Lifeboat began with a nugget of history I discovered back …
Sheila O’ Flanagan, briefly tells us about her first historical novel, The Woman On The Bridge. The story of a young woman caught up in Ireland’s fight for freedom. The …
Books tend to form slowly for me. Usually there’s a novel or two in various states of progress, and particularly early on, and then again between drafts, I’ll bounce between …
My new novel, The Witches of Vardø is inspired by the true events of a series of witch trials on the arctic island of Vardø in Northern Norway in 1662, …
As booksellers, and above all book lovers, we greatly admire the way Booktok has managed to bring so many new readers into shops and turn titles into bestsellers in the …
While the Soviet Union was governed by a single communist party for sixty-nine years, it was the Stalinist era spanning 1924 to 1953 that were the most memorably brutal. Nobody …
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