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 on his new novel, The Heart in Winter. In late October of 1999, in a room at the Capri Motel in Butte, Montana, I sat dutifully over my notebook and attempted to begin my Butte, Montana novel. I had been in town gathering material about the great Irish migration to …
Category: Historical Fiction
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, …
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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 …
That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. …
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