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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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Rag and Bone Collectors of New York
My work in progress has just taken itself off to New York City. This is a classic case of being swept along in the wake of one's characters. I get very little say in the matter. As a result I've been researching life in the tenements of NYC in the late nineteenth...
Musings on Middlesbrough
My first two books have faraway locations - a great excuse for combining research with holidays. I thought I was joking at first when I began to tell people novel number 3 would be set in Middlesbrough. For a start I'd never set foot in the place - and had never...
Being Uprooted
It was only after I'd finished the first draft of my second novel that I realised it had something in common with the first. Then after sketching out a rough outline of novel number 3, I've realised that I'm exploring a similar theme there too. That theme is...
