Category: Other writing
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Citoyennes: women of the Paris Commune
First posted May 5th, 2015 (links updated/revised 26.2.26) The mythical figure of the pétroleuse, hideous or heroic depending on your point of view, has now almost been forgotten. For decades it was the most abiding image of the 1871 Paris Commune, and undoubtedly helped to hide the true history of real women’s involvement in France’s…
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That Burning Summer: sources & background reading
Interested in exploring any of the history, ideas or places in That Burning Summer? Here are some good starting points – books, short stories, websites, online articles, films, museums etc, all loosely grouped by theme, many of which obviously overlap. Clearly, this is far from definitive. Most of this I used while I was writing the novel, but I…
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A World Between Us: sources & background reading
There have been well over 15,000 books written in English about the Spanish Civil War – twice that many in Spanish, and more are published every month in Spain. Here I’ve listed some of the books that influenced me most when I was writing A World Between Us, as well as a few more recent publications, many…
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Songs from the Spanish Civil War
You can hear different versions of nearly all the songs in A World Between Us on YouTube. I haven’t been able to locate all the original links I posted when I first wrote this post but I’ve done my best to find good alternatives! Many of these videos include evocative archive images of the Spanish Civil War. From Barcelona…