The September edition of the BBC History Magazine contained a great review of The Cleansing Flames (since shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Award). I wanted to link to it at the time, but it wasn’t available online. Now it is. So here it is! It may take a little while to load.
Looks like it’s going to be Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood. Here’s her with her sister Moomin:
I’ve been holding off from writing this because it’s been too hard to find the right words. But some weeks ago we lost our much loved family pet – and my occasional writing partner (see the video above) – Molly. She was pretty old – we don’t know exactly how old as she was a …
This week I found out that my novel The Cleansing Flames has been nominated for the 2011 CWA Ellis Peters award. Here’s the link to the CWA website that tells you all about it. Congratulations to all the authors on the list (which as you can see includes three Faber authors!): Rory Clements Prince (John …
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I always get a little nervous when I’m meeting genuine Russians, because I’m convinced they’re going to see through the made-up ones in my books. That, or take umbrage at my act of outrageous literary effrontery in appropriating a character created by one of their nation’s greatest ever writers. My novels feature Porfiry Petrovich, you …