Interview by Kate de Meillon A large part of the inspiration for Lost in the Garden comes from my 1980s childhood growing up in deepest rural Lincolnshire – it’s such a strange environment, especially having now largely lived in less remote places in recent years. You almost feel cut off from the rest of the […]
Three Gifts is both heartfelt and funny. Which authors have influenced you when writing tragic and comedic scenes, and how do you balance these different tones? Thank you. Perhaps not a fashionable choice but I think Rachel Joyce writes heartfelt and witting well. I thought The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey was brilliantly poised and […]
By Kate de Meillon 1) You’ve written a great novel, could you briefly explain to a potential reader what it is about? It’s about a 16-year old boy, Sebastian, who falls in love on holiday in Italy, and about a retired CIA agent who recants his participation in Operation Gladio post-WW2. That’s when the CIA-backed […]
By Charlotte Harris Some say you should always read for pleasure (and they’re right), but there’s another, much shallower, reason to get reading – and that’s for status. Yes, of course it’s silly and elitist to base our judgments of others on their knowledge of Russian Literature or Greek Mythology, but this bad habit doesn’t […]
Last year I read about fifty books – and the vast majority of them were just fine. As my mother would say, they kept me quiet. I’m all for books that can pass the time on a dreary Sunday afternoon, but here is a short list of the books that did better than keep me […]
by Charlotte Harris The Most Heartbreaking Line of Dialogue Ever Written : How Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman Reveals the Human Tragedy of Late Capitalism Over the course of just six weeks in the Spring of 1948 Arthur Miller produced, in my opinion, the greatest play of the twentieth century. Centred on the Loman family of […]
