The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
A Death in Berlin is the third instalment of Simon Scarrow’s excellent Berlin Noir series featuring Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke. A former racing car driver turned police detective. It’s May 1940, the Second World War is less than a year old and its all quiet on...
The world of Elizabethan spiery is a crowded one – but, in Shadow of Poison, Peter Tonkin once again demonstrates why he stands head and shoulders above the crowd. Given his history of writing thrillers and Elizabethan fiction, Tonkin is a master of genre and era. His...
At school I was an avid reader of history, including the swashbuckling adventures of the members of the O’Neill, O’Donnell and O’Rourke clans who used the strength of their sword arms to carve out positions of wealth and influence in their adopted homelands in...
Theodore Brun, this is the second of your four books and we’re now in 8th century Sweden after Denmark in A Mighty Dawn. How does this story follow on from the first? Pretty directly. In its first draft, both novels formed part of the same enormous manuscript. (I...
Paul, we’re in book 2 of your Rebellion series. Can you update readers on where we are at the beginning of Uprising? At the end of book 1 (Blood Feud), we left Oslac back home in his village at Acum, following the successful conclusion of two major plot lines....
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Karen Haden, what first attracted you to the period in which you write, and historical fiction in general? Having previously worked as a consultant for intelligence and cyber security agencies, I was drawn to the Tudor and Stewart years, with their complex mix of...
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The Secretary is a thrilling examination of the deadly unease in 1958 Moscow during the Cold War, from the rare perspective of a female MI6 operative. Lois Vale is tasked with the deep-cover mission of unearthing a suspected mole lurking in the British embassy,...
She dropped her aitches but picked up every note, sparkled more than the gems on her gown - and was a pitch perfect blend of fierceness and fineness. Kirsty King, playing Eliza Doolittle, lit up the stage in a new adaptation of My Fair Lady at The Questors Theatre in...
