November/December is always a stressful time for any author who’s had a book come out in the preceding year. Everywhere you look, you see books of the year lists, in which your book inevitably doesn’t feature. So it was a truly unexpected surprise to discover that Death of a Princess has been picked by not …
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Whenever Beryl Bainbridge finished a novel, she would make a painting inspired by the book. It feels like it might have been a way of getting the novel fully out of her system, enabling her to move on to a new project. Although apparently, the real reason was that when she was writing she missed …
I’ve written a couple of articles about the background to my new book, Death of a Princess. The first begins: “In 1879 a group of eleven young people descended on the quiet Russian spa town of Lipetsk, over 700 miles south of St Petersburg. The ten men and one woman stood out from the geriatric …
My writing partner Moomin admiring the book we wrote together I’m delighted to announce that my new novel, Death of a Princess, is out now. The paperback will be published next week. It’s the final book in my Empire of Shadows series featuring the Russian investigating magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky. Like all my books, it’s …
After four read-throughs and four rounds of self-edits, I have finally shared my latest book with my trusted beta-reader. So now begins the nail-biting period of waiting to hear what she thinks. It’s not made any easier by the fact that my trusted beta-reader likes to read in bed. Lying next to me. (Did I …