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Jim Loughran

The debut author talks history, his inspiration and forgotten histories.

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...

Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke

The descendant of a Jacobite noble who fled Ireland for Russia is the inspiration for a new novel.

Jim Loughran

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....