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Welcome to the website of Clare Flynn, award-winning and bestselling author of sixteen historical novels.
A Greater World was Clare’s debut novel 2014. In the years since it was released, Clare has written and published award-winning historical novels taking place across the world, including four books in her hugely popular Penang Series. She also has books available in German and French translation.
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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 else just to interact with your imagination and put some words on a page? ...
Guest blog: The Bookseller’s Wife by Jane Davis
In this special guest blog my good friend and fellow writer Jane Davis introduces her latest novel, The Bookseller's Wife. Over to you, Jane...Moorfields and Chiswell Street, 1780 Although most Londoners live within walking distance of open countryside, Moorfields is...
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 exhibition aims to explode through all that with a...
