Two novelists discuss their latest work and the way they weave history into them.
Rachel Hore is author of The Dream House, The Memory Garden and The Glass Painter’s Daughter, shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year 2010. Her most recent novel is The Silent Tide, set in the world of London publishing past and present. She is well known for stories that grippingly entwine the past and present.

Jane Thynne is author of The Winter Garden, a story about dangerous liaisons and torn loyalties in pre-war Nazi Germany. Clara Vine finds herself in the world of the secret services in Berlin after travelling to Germany to find work as an actress. Thynne is a journalist who has worked at the BBC, the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and The Independent.