Write historical fiction: Finding daily details
How to use historical objects in fiction without making them into fetishes In writing historical fiction, there are two main traps to avoid. One is …
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10 Historical Thrillers You Have to Read
The unmissable best historical thrillers, including at least a few you haven’t heard of Naturally I’m assuming you’ve already read …
Writing with Paint: Learning Oils for My Caravaggio Novel ‘A Name in Blood’
To research A Name in Blood, my novel about the mystery of Caravaggio’s death, I traveled to all the places where the great artist lived and worked. I …
Using real locations in historical fiction
Historical novelists recreate the emotions and events of distant times. For some novelists, this is a matter of supreme imagination and invention, …
Amadeus, Murder and the real Mozart
The long wait for a successor to Amadeus is over. In fact, my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA answers questions about the great composer’s death that are …
My Mozart novel and the intifada
If there had never been a Palestinian intifada, I might never have written my novel about the death of Mozart, MOZART’S LAST ARIA, which is published …
Gentleman and thug: researching my new historical novel
One of the great pleasures of novel-writing is the research which, for almost every book, ought to bring the writer to investigate different areas of …