Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Gold: Power and Allure

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Among the hidden secrets of London are the collections of historical objects held by the city’s 108 livery companies: not hidden, in many ...
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Monday, 11 June 2012

What makes a book - the content or the format?

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I had an exchange on Twitter, with a colleague at the Centre for the Future of Museums ( http://futureofmuseums....
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Sunday, 10 June 2012

The Languages of Undreamed Shores

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Several readers have commented on the languages of Undreamed Shores, and asked how I devised them. This set me worrying. How long before we...
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012

The "Prehistories" of Jean Rouaud. 2. The Cave of Ghosts

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The Guardian recently published a list of the “top ten historical novels” ( http://bit.lyL1v7QU ). One of the most encouraging things abo...
Sunday, 6 May 2012

Historical fiction - "a genre not jammed with greatness"?

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Such is the nature of our electronic age that an article which carries tomorrow’s publication date may not only be freely available today,...
Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Undreamed Shores to be launched on May 24th

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My debut novel, Undreamed Shores, will be published by Crooked Cat Publications ( http://www.crookedcatpublishing.com ) on May 24th. S...
Monday, 23 April 2012

The "Prehistories" of Jean Rouaud. 1. "The Paleo-Circus."

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Jean Rouaud (b.1952) is one of France’s finest living novelists. His first book, Les Champs d’Honneur (translated as Fields of Glory ) wo...