The Bravery of Being Different
When I was a child I was just as familiar with Irish rebel songs as I was with nursery rhymes. Every weekend my dad would play songs about the Irish…
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Zoom-Bombed at the Book Club
I have to admit that when the pandemic hit and everything went online I went into a massive sulk. One of my favourite aspects of my writing career has been…
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The Heart-Wrenching True Story I had to Keep Alive
When I started researching the Second World War for my new novel, An American in Paris, I was blown away by the accounts of so-called ‘ordinary’ people who heroically risked…
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The Magpie’s Guide to Writing Historical Fiction
This year, after 20 years of writing contemporary fiction, I was asked by a publisher if I’d be interested in writing a novel set during the Second World War. I…
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