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The Stories Behind The Story

Anna Sayburn Lane

The true-life stories behind my 1920s murder mystery novels

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What did the 1920s smell like?

It began on Kings Cross railway station, at the start of my new book The Midwinter Murder. I was busy conjuring up the sights and sounds of the station just before Christmas: bustling porters, steam engines whistling, the Salvation Army bel...

4 days ago
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Death And Venice

I visited Venice for the first time two years ago. Except of course I’d been there before, many times, in films and on television, and most lastingly, in the pages of books. Autumn seems the right time to hop aboard a gondola of words and g...

11 days ago
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Researching the gothic in Victorian London

For the latest in my series of author interviews, I’m delighted to introduce LC Winter, known to friends as Libby. Libby and I met on a very gothic writing retreat in the depths of Devon, just before Christmas. Her debut novel Spider, Spide...

17 days ago
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News and views: into October

Autumn is the ‘squirrel season’ of my year: a busy time of harvesting this year’s work, starting new studies and planning for the winter ahead. October is autumn proper, that all-too-brief season of crisp, blue-skied mornings, mulching leav...

a month ago
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Why aye, pet!

One of the joys of setting my new novel in Northumberland has been rediscovering the familiar accents, words and phrases I heard as a child while spending time with my father’s family in north east England.

My grandparents lived in Whitley...

a month ago
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    Author of thrillers and murder mysteries. Loves historical research.

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