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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 Cover Design for A Greater World
I'm very pleased with the cover for A Greater World - done by Jane Dixon-Smith of JD Smith Design. Jane is now working on the cover for Kurinji Flowers - and I am cracking on with the horrible and frustrating task of setting the two texts up for Kindle. I would have...
A Poem Unlocks the Door to my Next Book
This chap is the poet, Ernest Dowson. A rather glum fellow who had a very sad life and an early death. When he was four his sister tried to drown him; his father, while in the late stages of tuberculosis, died of an overdose; his mother hanged herself shortly after...
5 Reasons for Going on Location
The start point for my books is often a location. Sometimes just being in a beautiful or interesting place makes me want to write about it. Sometimes the place itself triggers the idea for a book or a character. Either way it's a good excuse to go back there to do...
