Category: Other writing
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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…