“i think about the readers all the time”

Were you interested in history from a young age? What first sparked your interest in the past? I hated history in school because it was boring – although I did read historical novels even then. Later,

The world according to…

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

by Gareth Rubin (£18.99, Simon & Schuster) This would be an excellent book club choice! An ambitious novel, with four interconnected mysteries, it takes the reader through centuries. Beginning with Sh

Ian McEwan is strolling through the garden of his Cotswolds manor house. Bees waft drowsily between wildflowers. Plump apples, pears and walnuts bauble the trees. Vibrant cerulean-blue damselflies hov

Broadcaster and author Clare Balding shares the reads that have been her escape and inspiration