Some exciting news about my first novel, THE NEEDLE IN THE BLOOD. The novel is fifteen years old this year and has a new lease on life, thanks to the Norwich Business Improvement District and their Book Benches project. The book cover features an image of Aesop’s Fable of the Fox and the Crow from …
A wise and lovely appreciation of Lines and Shadows from Katherine Stansfield in the August 2023 edition of the Historical Novels Review Sarah Bower on Lines and Shadows Sarah Bower was eight during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and what she remembers as “the dark and fearful mood” of this time underpins her new novella Lines …
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The National Centre for Writing in Norwich hosted a wonderful launch event for Lines and Shadows at its Literature House, Dragon Hall, on the 27th July, and I thank them very much for their excellent hospitality. An enthusiastic audience from as far afield as Singapore listened to readings and a Q and A between myself …
A Mythological Merman and Legends of the Cold War: Stories of Orford Ness As she was carried through the streets of the city, Miss Sasaki noticed something ‘that particularly gave her the creeps. Over everything – up through the wreckage of the city, in gutters, along the riverbanks, tangled among tiles and tin roofing, climbing …
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