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Elizabeth Buchan

Elizabeth Buchan

Elizabeth Buchan

The award-winning novelist discusses her writing, inspiration and the past.

You’ve written about the major events of the 20th century, such as WW2 and the Cold War – the attraction of the period of history, or do go for character and plot first? They are closely allied! However, it wasn’t until I was a parent myself that I began to reflect on...

Nancy Wake: SOE Agent

Nancy Wake: SOE Agent

How Far Would You Go To Do What is Right?

At the outbreak of the Second World War, the charismatic and hugely attractive Nancy Wake was an Australian living with her French businessman husband in Marseilles. Immediately, she plunged into resistance work which resulted in her having to flee from France,...

Elizabeth Buchan

Elizabeth Buchan

Elizabeth Buchan began her career as a blurb writer at Penguin Books after graduating from the University of Kent with a double degree in English and History. She moved on to become a fiction editor at Random House before leaving to write full-time. Her novels include the award-winning Consider the Lily and the international bestseller, Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, which was made into a CBS Primetime Drama. Other novels include I Can’t Begin to Tell You, a story of SOE agents and resistance in wartime Denmark,  The New Mrs Clifton,The Museum of Broken PromisesTwo Women in Rome and her latest, Bonjour, Sophie, which will be published in April 2024.
Elizabeth Buchan

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Two Women in Rome, by Elizabeth Buchan

Two Women in Rome, by Elizabeth Buchan

A story set in 1970s Italy from the bestselling author.
Amy McElroy

We start during the 1970s, as the independent minded Nina finds herself falling for a man who she knows she cannot have a life with. Leo has his own familial demons to contend with, whilst Nina has secrets of which Leo can never be party to. Nina’s life is snatched...

What Remains

What Remains

In this mysterious tale of intrigue, we are taken into the world of pathology and ancient Egypt.
Elizabeth Buchan

The Princess of Thebes was wheeled on a gurney into the laboratory. Peta Raven observed the porters’ careful progression through the doorway and up to the table. No corpse should be, or ever was, treated negligently in this place but custody of the princess invoked an...