by Clare Flynn | Dec 5, 2019
Knowing that I was participating in NaNoWriMo for the fifth year in succession, I decided to get away for the last week of November in total isolation in order to have a last push on hitting those fifty thousand words. I love staying in Landmark Trust properties as...
by Clare Flynn | Jul 12, 2019
While I was ending the third month of my four-month Round the World voyage, one of my old friends, Peter, asked me the following question on Facebook. “Clare, several of your novels feature long ocean voyages (in very different times) – having circumnavigated...
by Clare Flynn | Feb 16, 2019
It only recently occurred to me that I have at least one scene involving a voyage by sea in every single one of the nine books I’ve written. As I write this post I am getting ready for my own major sea voyage – a round-the-world cruise for four months. This has to be...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 22, 2018
I was in London for a meeting last week and had some spare time to kill before my train home so I headed to one of my favourite places, the Victoria and Albert Museum. I always enjoy wandering around the galleries or sketching the marble sculptures, but this time I...
by Clare Flynn | Oct 22, 2017
Apart from planned trips to India and Australia to research two of my books, these days I usually plan my holidays around painting – choosing locations I’ve never visited before and where I think there might be interesting landscapes. There have however been two short...
by Clare Flynn | Aug 8, 2017
(Image credit: Eric Ravilious, The Westbury Horse, 1939. Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne ) I’ve just returned from viewing the exhibition Ravilious and Co: The Pattern of Friendship at the Towner Gallery here in Eastbourne. I’d love to post some images but...
