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I have so much to say on this subject, not least because I just voted for the first time (aged 50!) in the recent US Presidential election. Of course I voted in the UK for years, but having filled out our citizenship paperwork while watching the Trump inauguration, it has given me a great deal…
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I AM writing, right now. Really I am. Words have appeared where they weren’t before. But I’ve also just taken a little side research trip that I wanted to share (and remember!) Without giving the game away, in my next book I have a character who is very ill one night and rumors of what…
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I was a big fan of Lisa Wingate’s last book, Before We Were Yours – about the scandalous adoption agency run by Georgia Tann in the 1940s – and jumped at the chance to review her new book for the Historical Novel Society. So this is not a review – because that’s for the HNS…
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Really enjoyed writing this character spotlight for The Girl Puzzle and focusing not on Nellie, but on her secretary, Beatrice Alexander.
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If you know about Nellie Bly at all, you most likely know that she went round the world by herself in 72 days in 1889/90, or that she got her first break into New York newspapers by feigning madness and getting herself committed to Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in 1887. But there was a lot…
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“The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man’s lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game’s questionable origins. Most think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian…
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“The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical science,…
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Here’s the first 14 days of my Christmas advent book calendar wish list. I’m having a lot of fun with this!
Kate braithwaite 