Category: Interview (page 12)

BackStory: Six Questions with Grace Palmer Author of In 1960… What inspired you to write this ‘In 1960…’? I was researching a story about medical research and how, historically, drug trials were not routinely tested on women, or pregnant animals.…

BackStory: Five Questions with Ellen Goldstein Author of Marie Curie’s Kitchen What inspired you to write this “Marie Curie’s Kitchen”? I read Barbara Goldsmith’s Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (UK / US), and was struck by the…

BackStory: Five Questions with Amy Barnes Author of The Garden Statue What inspired you to write ‘The Garden Statue’? I read an article on 18th century monks that lived in gardens as precursors to garden gnomes. But there was more…

BackStory: Five Questions with Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon Author of Gutted What inspired you to write ‘Gutted’? I was involved our local Workers’ Educational Association’s ‘Turbulent Times Project’ which looked at the decade after the end of the World War…

BackStory: Five Questions with Olivia Fitzsimons Author of Shoes in the Wall What inspired you to write ‘Shoes in the Wall’? I renovated a cottage from 1920s a few years ago and my dad mentioned that there might be shoes…

BackStory: Five Questions with Kate Finegan Author of The Fire She Feels What inspired you to write ‘The Fire She Feels’? The line from Hamilton (which is basically my brain’s soundtrack) where Angelica says, “It’s Ben Franklin with the key…

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…

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…

BackStory: Five Questions with Sarah Arantza Amador Author of In Dead Waters What inspired you to write this ‘In Dead Waters’? My parents were preparing for a trip to Marseille and Provence earlier this year, and I happened to read…

BackStory: Five Questions with Susmita Bhattacharya Author of The Partitioning of Dreams What inspired you to write ‘The Partitioning of Dreams’? Growing up in India, we always celebrated Independence Day on the 15th of August with such a sense of…