Josie Dale-Jones is a force to be reckoned with as she takes to Shoreditch Town Hall for her show, A Little Inquest Into What We Are All Doing Here. The show is an exploration of topics such as censorship, free speech, artistic freedom, and cancel culture. In 2022,...
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Fiona Forsyth on Death and the Poet
So, we are back in Tomis – will there be another murder to be solved by the Roman love poet Ovid? Oh yes! I was chatting about this the other day with some fellow crime writers, and we decided that the ideal detective and hero for a mystery series is – a writer. There...
Anne O’Brien on The Queen and the Countess
Anne, many congrats on the new novel. We’re in England in the early 1450s and just at the start of the Wars of the Roses. Queen Margaret and Anne, Countess of Warwick are the main two characters. What was the genesis of the story? The battles and political struggles...
James Dunford Wood
James Dunford Wood, what first attracted you to the 1930s and beyond? I inherited a set of war diaries written by my father, covering 1939-1946 and RAF campaigns in Iraq, Burma and North-West Europe. Can you tell us a little about your research? For my book The Big...
The Fires of Gallipoli, by Barney Campbell
The Fires of Gallipoli explores resilience, self-discovery, fortitude and friendship during, and in the aftermath, of the Gallipoli Campaign. This book follows Edward Salter, a shy 25-year-old solicitor whose life is changed by the outbreak of the First World War and...
James Dunford Wood
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Found, by Will Erikson
Found is the debut novel from Will Erikson. It is set in 2003 in the chaotic aftermath of the coalition invasion of Iraq. Told in the first person, the protagonist, Harry Smith, is a junior officer in the UK intelligence services who is deployed to Iraq as part of the...
Jim Loughran
Jim Loughran, what first attracted you to the 1930s and beyond? The 1930’s were a turning point. I think back to my own mother who was born in 1911 when the German, Austrian, Russian and Ottoman empires still stood. The Second World War created a definitive break with...
Jim Loughran
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Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke
Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke Since I was a teenager three periods of history have obsessed me: French history from Louis XIV to the rise of Napoleon, World War 1 and the collapse of empires and the Russian revolution. I have read endless biographies, memoirs and novels....