CLARE FLYNN

I thought it might be interesting to recreate the routes taken independently and together by Norton and Stella in The Star of Ceylon.

Clare Flynn discusses the research she undertook when writing her novel The Star of Ceylon, and gives her tips for historical research

I'm delighted to welcome my good friend, writer and creative writing teacher/coach/editor, Lorna Fergusson, to the blog to talk about the location of her new short story collection and why she chose to write about visitors to France and the unique persepctive that offered her in writing the stories.

Clare Flynn stays at Galle Face Hotel, a key location in two of her Penang Series novels.

People sometimes ask me why I love writing retreats. Surely you can write just as easily in your own home, or in a library or coffee...

I’d had a writing drought for three months. Not what I’d expected when I set off to sail around the world in one hundred and thirty days....

I’ve visited Istanbul several times – once in the mid 90s on holiday and several times on business with the odd weekend tagged on.  I...

My office was just down the road beside Darling Harbour and I used to have the occasional beer after work in the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel –...