BackStory: Five Questions with Emma Venables Author of Snow in March What inspired you to write ‘Snow in March’? I’ve been researching and writing about Nazi Germany for a while now and I’ve long been fascinated with the image of…
Snow in March
Snow in March by Emma Venables Anna skirts around the ruins of Berlin, around burst waterpipes and mangled tramlines. Her eyes are on the blue, inspecting the gap-toothed skyline for movement. She stands on her tiptoes, gets knocked sideways by a…
BackStory: Four Questions with Claire Polders
BackStory: Four Questions with Claire Polders Author of Inner Thief What inspired you to write “Inner Thief”? My grandmother, who is over one hundred years old, lived through the Second World War and the German occupation as a young bride…
Inner Thief
Inner Thief by Claire Polders Her husband folds his hand over hers, the one wielding the knife, and she stops slicing the breakfast bread. He says they have enough. Their eyes meet. The word “enough” sounds foreign to her, as…