The Stories Behind The Story
Anna Sayburn LaneThe true-life stories behind my 1920s murder mystery novels
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Bloomsbury ladies
Hello! I’m taking a week off as it’s the August bank holiday and I have family coming (including the new granddaughter! Bliss!). I thought I’d reshare a post from a couple of years ago, which explains about the inspiration for my Marjorie S...
We will never speak of this again: why are so few novels set during the English Civil War?
Certain historical periods attract novelists like bees around a honeypot. In England, the stars of the show are the Tudors, with an abundance of books and films about Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare. The English are also kee...
Priest's holes and windows into men's souls
Hide-and-seek wasn’t a game in Elizabethan England. For Catholics, and especially for Catholic priests, it could be a matter of life and death. The proliferation of ‘priest’s holes’ in big houses and castles of the sixteenth century offered...
How not to let research ruin your first draft: placeholders, need-to-know and the historical note
I’m off visiting my new granddaughter in Wales this week, so here’s a guest interview with one of my favourite authors, Benedict Brown. Benedict is also celebrating a new arrival: his third baby arrived last month. So congratulations to Ben...
My August to-do (and not-to-do) list
I’ve half-written a piece about historical fiction, and why some periods are more written about while others are mostly neglected. But I got halfway through and ran out of oomph.
Inspired by fabulous Substacker Jeanette Winterson, I’m dit...
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Author of thrillers and murder mysteries. Loves historical research.
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