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Long before John Wayne brought the world that walk; long before Clint Eastward flicked his poncho as the Man With No Name, long before the old West was immortalised on the big screen, it had already been framed in the minds of generations of men and women – in a rather peculiar way. But in ...
In an age when people have taken to pulling down statues – albeit this hasn’t happened for a couple of years now – you know that there’s a disconnect between the past and the present. Whether that misconnection is born of ignorance, misunderstanding or ingrained prejudice is open to debate, but
It’s a safe bet to suppose that while you’ll know of The Four Feathers and its essential storyline – after all, it’s been adapted for film six times – you probably won’t be able to name its author. In fact you’re almost certainly more likely to know that the most recent film version of the ...
The Irresistible Appeal of the 1930sWhat is it about the 1930s that we find so irresistible? What is it about this decade that provides such constant inspiration to writers and filmmakers – not to mention our imaginations? Why can’t we get enough of the 1930s?I expect part of the answer
At its greatest extant under the rule of Suleyman the Magnificent in the 1500s, the Ottoman Empire ran from the walls of Vienna (to which it laid siege in 1529 all the way across eastern Europe and the Middle East to Baghdad and Basra. From Algiers the tughra of the sultans also held sway ...
Author Interviews
What prompted you to write about Drabble & Harris, and the Inter-War period?The idea for my first novel, Rule Britannia, was inspired by two things – first I remember reading about Oliver Cromwell’s head, and how it had been in private hands for hundreds of years.Then I was inspired by a counter-factual idea of what ...
Alec Marsh, many congrats on the new book. This is your fourth Drabble & Harris thriller. What’s happened to our two heroes since Ghosts of the West?The big development is that Ernest Drabble has got married to Charlotte Moore whom he met in