by Clare Flynn | Jul 11, 2024
Why The Artist’s War is dedicated to the grandfather I never met Sadly, I never met either of my grandfathers – they both died in the 1930s when my parents were still children. My paternal grandfather, William Joseph Flynn served in the First World War on the Western...
by Clare Flynn | Apr 27, 2024
A False Start When I was in Sri Lanka recently, I started writing what would have been my seventeenth novel. At that stage, I hadn’t even had my structural edits back on number sixteen, which I’d only submitted to my publisher the day before I left. (Happily, my...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 25, 2024
A Change is as Good as a Rest – Writing and Research Trip to Sri Lanka 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 shop? Isn’t it an unnecessary indulgence to travel somewhere...
by Clare Flynn | Jan 30, 2024
My visit to Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean, Oxford When I think of the Victorians I get visions of Dickensian smoke-clogged cities, widows’ weeds, funeral coaches with black-plumed horses, lots of gloomy tartan and blackened grates. The fabulous Colour Revolution...
by Clare Flynn | Dec 11, 2023
A Day out in Ditchling I can’t believe I’ve never been to Ditchling before. Less than twenty miles from me, it used to be home to artist Frank Brangwyn, and notorious sculptor Eric Gill, as well as several brilliant weavers. The pretty Downland village hosts the...
