In the footsteps of Dame Muriel
I’m not the first novelist inspired by The Wreck of the Deutschland. I hadn’t realised it when I started out, but I’m following in the...
The trap of “researchitis”
ALTHOUGH this is a short novel it took a long time to write. I fell into the age-old trap of “researchitis” – where delving into the real...
Hopkins and me
I WAS BORN in Chester, not far from the part of North Wales where much of The Hopkins Conundrum was set. My mother was Welsh, and it was...
The sisters at rest
THE BODIES of four of the five nuns on whom The Wreck of the Deutschland is based were brought ashore at Harwich and then taken to...
