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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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The Button Maker’s Daughter
I'm delighted to have Merryn Allingham as my guest on the blog this week. Merryn is the very popular author of the Daisy's War trilogy of books set in India and London in the 1930s and 40s. Her latest books explore two pivotal moments in the history of Britain. The...
“The Vilest of the Vile”
I've written before about Middlesbrough, the setting for my third novel, Letters from a Patchwork Quilt, but I read a fascinating piece this morning about the town in the 19th century that made me want to write about it again. It was an article from the Middlesbrough...
Behind the Scenes at Compton Place
Thanks to the Sussex Archaeological Society I was lucky enough to have a tour of Compton Place here in Eastbourne. The house and grounds are owned by the Duke of Devonshire and for the past sixty years have been leased to a ladies' finishing school which since became...
