Category: reading
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What is the point of history?
Why study the past when it is just that – past, gone, over and done with – or is it? There are numerous reasons that historians cite for their interest in the past, probably as many reasons as there are historians! Here’s a few suggestions that various historians have cited, to start us off: Let’s…
Isabella Muir
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The bottom billion
Global trade and globalisation are now so ingrained in our world that it would seem impossible to remove them, to return to a time when local produce was enjoyed entirely by local people. Of course, trading across borders is not a new concept. As far back as the nineteenth century, British whaling ships landed on…
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What is real?
In our own way, we all need something to believe in. Walter, one of my favourite fictional characters, looks to nature in his attempts to understand the world. We first meet Walter in The Forgotten Children, when Emily travels to the isle of Anglesey, and on a clifftop walk she encounters a gentle stranger… ‘Today…
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What if new isn’t always better?
Is new always better? Are there some changes that can be justified in order to take the world in a new and different direction, or does human nature result in us merely duplicating past mistakes?
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Looking back to the future
If you have read any of my books, you will know I have a fascination with the recent past. My stories are all set during two eras: the Second World War years and the vibrant decade of the 1960s. Writing any fiction, whether about then or now, involves a certain amount of research. In fact,…
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Delving into the past
Anyone who has read any of my stories will know I have a fascination with the past, specifically the more recent past. Writing my first series of Sussex Crime novellas I spent happy hours researching what life was like on the Home Front in England during the Second World War. Research for my novels took…
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Meet the tenants of Number 1, Mountfield Road!
Anyone who has read my stories will know I am fascinated by the recent past. That fascination leads me to be forever questioning. How did we arrive at the life we live now, in the world we live in now. Thinking about the how and why of it all, I’ve been imagining a scenario where…
Isabella Muir
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Meet the tenants of Number 1, Mountfield Road!
Anyone who has read my stories will know I am fascinated by the recent past. That fascination leads me to be forever questioning. How did we arrive at the life we live now, in the world we live in now. Thinking about the how and why of it all, I’ve been imagining a scenario where…
Isabella Muir
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Janie Juke chega a Portugal, e não só!
Durante o último ano, foi um privilégio ter tido a oportuindade de trabalhar com a maravilhosa tradutora Ana Catarina Palma Neves para fazer chegar os dois primeiros livros da série Mistérios em Sussex aos leitores de língua portuguesa. O Saco de Viagem e Perdidos e Achados desenrolam-se em Sussex, Inglaterra, no final da década de…
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Add a journey in time to your holiday travels!
The good news is that you can now find all my novels on Kindle Unlimited! So, if you are a KU subscriber, then you can immerse yourself in sixties crimes and mysteries for free! The Janie Juke mysteries The Tapestry Bag Lost Property The Invisible Case A Notable Omission The Giuseppe Bianchi mysteries Crossing the Line After…
Isabella Muir
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