What a great subject for research! Having decided that I must include a meeting between the protagonist of the new novel and …
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.
This arose out of another Qatar National Library Writing Circle challenge: to write a story about an object. For a long time, …
Now that the first draft of The Third Daughter has been – more or less – hammered out, I’m experimenting a little. …
This post is available as a podcast One of the saddest stories I’ve come across in my research for The Third Daughter …