Category Archives: Books

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Clapham Book Festival – Media & Tickets

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And we’re off! The starter’s gun has fired. As of today, Friday 31st March, there are only thirty-six days to go until the second Clapham Book Festival. Tickets are now on sale for all sessions, a snip at £10 a … Continue reading

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Authenticity and verisimilitude

Authentic – adjective genuine, authoritative, true; (of writing) trustworthy, as setting forth real facts. Verisimilitude – noun the quality of seeming real or true; an appearance of truth or reality. Fiction writers know about both and this has a specific … Continue reading

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History Writing

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Reading about the past is, for me, an ongoing pleasure. I also set my latest books there. As regular readers of The Story Bazaar will know, I have written one historical novel and am writing a second. So chairing The … Continue reading

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Historical Detectives

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Walking those mean LA streets with Sam Spade, dashing through fog-bound Victorian London with Holmes and Watson, or negotiating the drawing rooms and murder scenes of 1930s Mayfair with Hercule Poirot, the reader of detective fiction is transported to times past. … Continue reading