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A friend of mine has a glorious tradition. She still reads with her near-teenage son every night. To my absolute joy, she is currently reading Mary Renault with him, in an attempt to introduce him to complex, layered prose.I bow to no-one in my veneration of Mary Renault. But my friend is ...
In the years just before the First World War, a boy was growing up in Imperial India. He was obstinate and full of life. Still a toddler, he chatted to the servants in Hindustani. His father nicknamed him Kim, after the spy hero of Rudyard Kipling’s novel, who could speak several languages and ...
Short Stories
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The poet eases his tongue into her mouth. He probes. She lets him. He pulls back, and she can see his eyes, watery and squid-ink dark. She closes hers, and presses her lips together into a thin line.'How strange,' she hears him say. 'How strange you are.'He puts his wrinkled, old man ...
Author Interview(s)
Antonia Senior talks to Elizabeth Fremantle about her novel The Tyrant’s Shadow.The Tyrant’s Shadow follows on from the events of your previous novel Treason’s Daughter, was it always your ...
Historical fiction is a great introduction to history. Can you recommend any historians to our readers to learn more about your period?My favourite general historians of the English Civil War are Diane Purkiss and Michael Braddick. John Adamson’s The Noble Revolt is a fascinating ...