The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Emma Sergeant’s ‘La Selva Oscura’ - Review Emma Sergeant’s newest exhibition, titled ‘La Selva Oscura’ at the Lavery Studio in South Kensington, explores the themes of Dante’s Inferno, as well as being inspired by her home in Poland. Sergeant is one of our most...
From Fact into Fiction: The Origins of The Devils of Cardona As every historian knows, the past is another country, and documents are the indispensable tools that we use to find our way into it. Wander too far from the paper trail, and history can easily drift into...
Thomas Messel, what first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? The focus of my study was a late eighteenth-century ancestor called Elizabeth Linley. I was aware that she eloped with and married the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, but initially, I...
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Santa, your latest book, Secrets of the Starlit Sea, has recently been published. By our calculations that makes it your 32nd book since Meet Me Under the Ombu Tree back in 2001. Do you have a favourite? It’s very hard to choose a favourite because at the time of...
The History behind The Bratinsky Affair "It is not the wimpled version of history that is interesting but its brutality." - Hilary Mantel The story of Countess Irina Bratinsky, née O’Rourke de Breffny, has its roots in the religious wars of 17th-century Ireland and...
Historical Heroes: Chiune Sugihara Chiune Sugihara is the little-known Japanese World War 2 hero who saved thousands of refugees with his pen. Through his quiet defiance, he issued what became known as ‘Visas for Life’, helping an estimated 6,000 Jewish refugees...
Strictly Murder - Review Should you be in the mood for a taut, theatrical thriller then Strictly Murder at The Questors Theatre in Ealing should satisfy your appetite. Set on the cusp of the Second World War, the two-act play, located in a cottage in Provence, is...
Alex, this is the second novel in the series. What has happened since the end of Every Spy a Traitor and the beginning of The Second Traitor? The most important thing which has happened is that the Second World War is now underway – the first book ends on the day...
The Judgment of Stars, by Jane Thynne The Judgement of Stars is the sixth book in Jane Thynne’s Clara Vine noir thriller series, set in Germany and following a chronology from Black Roses, set in the early 1930s, to The Judgement of Stars in 1942. Clearly, there is...
