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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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This month I have mostly been reading domestic thrillers. Not only those; I’m still slow-reading AS Byatt’s The Children’s Room and Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror And The Light, but sometimes I want the opposite of a slow read: a propulsive, on...

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We will never speak of this again: why are so few novels set during the English Civil War?

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