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In the 1890s there emerged a completely new character in popular fiction. He was intelligent, a master of disguise, accompanied by a faithful assistant and unorthodox. But it wasn’t Sherlock Holmes. It was the cricketer – and amateur cracksman – A.J. Raffles. Indeed, Raffles could be seen as ...
John le Carré may have a few rivals when selecting the greatest novelist of the late 20th century (there are arguments to be made for Graham Greene, Tom Wolfe, and Philip Roth, among others) but he certainly has no superior. Le Carré was not just a chronicler of the cold war, he was a ...
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Richard, Can you tell us about your latest Spies of Rome title and how you came to write the novella?I often receive emails from readers asking about when the next book in a series will be. I get more mail than most about Spies of Rome. So I decided to write a series of novellas (the first of which, Blood & Poison, was published last year) to accompany the novels. I ...
Richard, firstly can you tell us a little about your latest book, Spies of Rome: Blood and Poison?I wanted to write a short, entertaining novella which introduced readers to the character of Rufus Varro (his humour and the age he lives in). At the same time, Blood & ...
Can you tell us a bit about the plot of Turpin’s Rival? Even more than Turpin’s Assassin, the novel reads like a revenge thriller.Having established Turpin in the first book, I wanted to up the pace and violence for the sequel. Turpin is as much an anti-hero as hero. It’s a story of revenge and rivalry. The villain of the piece, the highwayman ...
You have written many bestselling novels set in both Ancient Rome and the medieval period. Dick Turpin, and Turpin’s Assassin veers away from your usual spheres and paints a picture of 18th century England. How did you find writing about a different historical era, and do you see yourself writing more ...
Adam Sisman, can you first tell us about the genesis of the book, The Secret Life of John le Carré? This shorter work serves as a coda to your full-length biography (although it can be read without being familiar with that work). When did you initially have the idea of writing a follow-up?While I was writing the biography that was published in 2015, my relations ...
Richard, our favourite reluctant spy and even more reluctant poet Rufus Varro is back – and there’s been a murder. Why was Assassin a story you wanted to add to the Spies of Rome series?
I partly wanted to write a novella that was in the mold of Steven Saylor’s Roma Sub Rosa series. His ...
Adam Sisman, can you first tell us about the genesis of the book, The Secret Life of John le Carré? This shorter work serves as a coda to your full-length biography (although it can be read without being familiar with that work). When did you initially have the idea of writing a follow-up?While I was writing the biography that was published in 2015, my relations ...
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