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Historic Mystery: Enveloping the Reader in the Past

9:00am | Sunday 1 April 2012
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About this Event:

Two award-winning writers, D J Taylor and Sadie Jones, discuss the art of writing historical mystery – the importance of atmosphere and characterisation and of creating a storyline for modern readers whilst authentically recreating the past.

Taylor’s new novel Secondhand Daylight is set in the 1930s and follows struggling writer James Ross in Soho as Mosley’s Blackshirts prowl the streets. It is the sequel to At The Chime of a City Clock which won praise for its evocation of the sleazy side of 1930s London.

Jones’s latest novel The Uninvited Guests is a mystery set in an Edwardian manor house in 1912. Her first work The Outcast won the Costa First Novel Award and was praised for its portrayal of the repressive social climate of the 1950s.

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