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When I moved to a little cottage in Devon a few years ago, I adopted…
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In 2006, when I started researching my grandmother’s life in Italy, I knew almost nothing…
I was brought up on the idea that there was an alpha male spy, James…
Sometimes, a book subject comes to you serendipitously, out of the blue. The wartime story…
Hands up if you’ve heard of Ray Kurzweil. If you haven’t heard of him, you’re…
The idea for the story, a woman who thinks she might be married to the…
For many people, especially in England, where I now live, Halloween is just another commercial…
In March 2016 I’d just finished writing the first draft of The Familiars. With an…
For me inspiration for a story always arrives at a very specific moment when I…
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