The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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What prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? I think that it rather chose me, though nothing is that simple in life. Nor do I think that I am, as it were, wedded to one period. Although my chief interest lies in the so-called ‘long...
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December, 1892 A hard overnight rain had frozen hard as iron on the roads and paths. This Christmas Eve, the whole of London seemed an ice rink. Detective Inspector George Bowman gazed through the window of the two-horse brougham he had hailed on Finchley Road. The...
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What prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? I’d always had a love of history, but my fascination with the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (or British Civil Wars) was sparked when I was 10 years old and my parents took me to Helmsley Castle,...
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What prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? I have a longstanding interest in late medieval history – especially the Wars of the Roses period which I have studied and researched a great deal over the years. It was an obvious choice when...
John le Carré may have a few rivals when selecting the greatest novelist of the late 20th century (there are arguments to be made for Graham Greene, Tom Wolfe, and Philip Roth, among others) but he certainly has no superior. Le Carré was not just a chronicler of the...
What prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? In a previous existence I taught history and so have always had an interest in the motivations that stirred men and women in the past. Why would I choose to write about medieval England? It...
