Piracy, pillage & plunder

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Piracy, pillage & plunder

How do you create characters from the past, and the world they lived

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Writing Magazine

6 June 2024

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“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

The TLS

‘a dear little genius’

Mark Twain and the making of an American literary revolution

Prima - UK

‘fate brought us together in the most incredible way’

Stranded on a Moroccan mountain, Jane Johnson thought she was going to die. But one random phone call changed everything. Here the Cornish author reflects on an unlikely but lasting love story

SFX

Holly race

Battle royal: the British novelist tells us how she overcame setbacks

Woman's Weekly - UK

Living in the past

Three women choose to spend their lives recognising the periods of history that mean the most to them

Radio Times Magazine

First lady of mantua

In her latest novel, Sarah Dunant explores the life of Italian aristocrat Isabella d’Este, the archetypal Renaissance woman

Piracy, pillage & plunder