Blog | Plague Searchers

3. It’s a plague – who lives, who dies? The hat of death.

When you’ve brought onto the page a set of characters that you’ve got used to, grown fond of (some of them), who you’ve seen develop and...

In the interests of hyper authenticity I bought some mid 17th century clay pipe fragments.

These are often found by “mudlarkers” who search shallow mud banks of the Thames at low tide. The long stems of the pipes usually survive...

I was casting around for an idea.

I’d had several, all for historical novels built around real events, but they petered out after a page or two. Browsing in The Curious...