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Kate Quinn on gathering material for great historical mysteries.
Nowadays whenever I read something truly off-the-wall in a historical novel, I think to myself "I bet that really happened, because nobody would make that up." Novelists, after all, are restricted by what is plausible: will a reader believe this could really happen? Reality knows no such constraints: anything can happen, and usually already has.
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'Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.'
in the Evening Standard