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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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Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum
What a fantastic and moving exhibition is Life and Death in Pompei and Herculaneum at the British Museum. I've been to Pompei (but not to Herculaneum) and thought it would offer little new, but this proved to be an incredible insight into everyday life in the two...
Looking Around The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne
My characters in Kurinji Flowers stay for a brief honeymoon at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne - in the winter of 1936. As I happened to be in Eastbourne this weekend to meeet up with old schoolfriends I asked the hotel if I could have a look around and was treated to a...
Plotting or Procrastinating? – I Try Storyboarding
I've been trying to crack a plot problem and it's been driving me round the bend. I can't even decide if I want to simplify the story or make it more complex. I've been going round and round in circles (correction - in a vortex of doom) and can't seem to make any...
