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….is the title of a new Radio 4 series of discussions about history and historical fiction. ( Everyone, it seems, is exploring historical fiction these days, though the Clapham Book Festival did it first in The Past is Another Country … Continue reading
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I had disembarked from the Jubilee line and was negotiating my way through the station when I saw the sign for Canary Wharf Docklands Light Railway. A-ha, thought I, an internal route, I won’t have to cross that windswept piazza … Continue reading
All stories are ghost stories in that they are peopled by the incorporeal, but stories set in the past, containing representations of real people who once lived and breathed, are especially so. Something Hilary Mantel reminds us of in her … Continue reading
To edit (v) to correct or adapt a text. I feel a surge of satisfaction as I click on ‘save’. I’m here in Jerez and I’ve got to the end of the first edit of the manuscript of Reconquista II. … Continue reading
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Clapham and Clapham Common in particular feature in a number of literary works, most famously as the setting for Graham Greene’s WWII novel The End of the Affair (1951). Greene lived at 14, Clapham Common Northside which, though it still exists … Continue reading
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