The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Those readers of the same vintage as I am may remember Dick Barton, Special Agent, the television programme at least, if not the original radio series. The iconic music from that series was playing in my head whilst I was reading Alec Marsh’s Ghosts of the West,...
As Tessa Dunlop says in her introduction, when she began to write Elizabeth and Philip, she did not expect the story to end so definitively with Queen Elizabeth’s death, despite her great age. The monarch had lost her husband of seventy-three years in 2021; he had...
The Winter Garden is a historical fiction time-slip novel, exploring the Gunpowder Plot as it has never been done before. Unravelling the myths, legends and stories we know about the events of 1605, Nicola Cornick brings to life the people behind our modern-day...
Would ‘penny for the Robert’ have quite the same ring to it? Probably not, but as Nicola Cornick demonstrates, it was Robert Catesby who was the driving force behind the terrorist plot to kill King James I, along with hundreds of others in the Gunpowder Plot. As a...
This is your second novel of the Tudor era, what is it about the Tudors do you think fascinates us so much today? Nicola Cornick I think there are a number of reasons why people are fascinated by the Tudor era. Firstly it’s a period of history that’s very familiar to...
Nicola Cornick effortlessly blends historical fiction with mystery-writing in her latest dual-time novel, The Last Daughter. An international bestselling author renowned for her time-slip mysteries, Cornick interweaves the 15th century with the present day to create a...
I’m drawn to writing about people who disappear. Perhaps it’s because as a historical novelist I look for the gaps in the historical record that can be filled by the imagination. One such historical figure is Francis, Viscount Lovell, close friend and advisor to King...
Nicola Cornick, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? My very first book was a Regency romance inspired by my enjoyment of Georgette Heyer’s writing more than anything else! However, when I changed genre to write dual-time...
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