This arose out of another Qatar National Library Writing Circle challenge: to write a story about an object. For a long time, …
Inspirations
This is a collection of random but interesting bits of ephemera and fascinating stories that have inspired my books. There are historical and archaeological facts, and some good ‘yarns’ that may be the product of someone else’s imagination, but together, they are the scaffolding for my own imagination.
I’m thinking of how to end the Lucius Sestius trilogy at the moment, and I’ve decided to make him one of the …
Now that the first draft of The Third Daughter has been – more or less – hammered out, I’m experimenting a little. …
