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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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What I Learned from a Voyage Around the World
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 two...
My hunch about wartime Beachy Head is vindicated!
About three years ago, when I was writing The Chalky Sea, I read as much as possible about the impact of the Second World War here in my home town of Eastbourne. I wanted my main character, Gwen Collingwood, a childless married woman whose husband has gone to war, to...
Interview with novelist Carol Cooper
I'm delighted to welcome Carol Cooper today to talk about her writing. I met Carol about four years ago soon after I published my first novel. Carol is a multi-talented individual who as well as being a successful novelist, is a medical doctor, a graduate of Newnham,...
