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Robin Blake’s Cragg & Fidelis

30 Thursday Jun 2022

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Cragg & Fidelis, historical mysteries, Historical Novel Society, Robin Blake

I was going to say that I don’t quite remember when I read my first Cragg and Fidelis mystery… But of course, thanks to the archives of the Historical Novel Society I can tell precisely: it happened when I reviewed the fourth installment, Skin and Bones, back in 2016. Continue reading →

German regrets

09 Thursday Jun 2022

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Adelbert von Chamisso, German language, Karl Stählin, research, Sir Francis Walsingham, studying languages

Do you speak German, o Readers?

Now, Italian is my native language – and I find it beautiful. Also, as you can probably guess, I love English very much. I also like French and Spanish.

German… not so much. Continue reading →

And… it’s out!

20 Friday May 2022

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Publication day, Sapere Books, The Road to Murder, The Tom Walsingham Mysteries

Rejoice with me!

The Road to Murder is out. Continue reading →

Countdown to the Road to Murder

12 Thursday May 2022

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C. P. Giuliani, Sapere Books, The Road to Murder, The Tom Walsingham Mysteries

A week and a day to publication!

Eight more days, and the Road to Murder will be out there… It’s an exciting time – full of last-minute dds and ends together with the people at Sapere Books – and also a slightly terrifying one… Continue reading →

The Road to Murder is up for preorder!

03 Thursday Mar 2022

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Amazon, C. P. Giuliani, Elizabethan spies, historical mystery, historical thriller, Preorder, Sapere Books, The Road to Murder, The Tom Walsingham Mysteries

And I’m very, very happy to announce that you can now preorder via Amazon The Road to Murder – Book 1 of the Tom Walsingham Mysteries! Continue reading →

The Road to Murder – Cover reveal!

10 Thursday Feb 2022

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And for the first time in nine years, I leave aside my beloved colour scheme of black, grey, red and white, because really, this one you must see in all its splendour… The lovely people at Sapere Books sent me my cover – the first cover for the Tom Walsingham Mysteries…

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The Eve of San Marco – found!

11 Thursday Nov 2021

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George Soane, Gothic fiction, Sir John Soane Museum, The Eve of San Marco

Do you remember my hunt for George Soane’s The Eve of San Marco?

Well, it took some tenacity – but in the end I found it, in its whole dubious three-volume glory, published by Gale as, for some reason, anonymous work. Continue reading →

The Clara Box

15 Friday Oct 2021

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alan ayckbourn, Books, brian friel, jules renard, ROH, Shakespeare's Globe, theatre

So they’ve been tidying up the Company’s extensive collection of books, plays and whatnots over the summer – and, as has become the case these past few years, everything and anything that isn’t in Italian has been set aside for me.

And I really mean anything: I once ended up with a book of plays in Serbian. Nobody had an inkling of when, how or, more relevantly, why on earth it had landed in the Company’s library – but, quite regardless, it went in the “Clara” box. That I don’t know a single word of Serbian didn’t seem to matter much. For the record, the book is still somewhere in my shelves – obviously unread but there… Continue reading →

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The Eve of San Marco – a treasure hunt

27 Friday Aug 2021

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George Soane, Gothic fiction, Sir John Soane, The Eve of San Marco

I am looking for a book.

“Well, you are always looking for a book – or three,” my mother said when I told her – and she isn’t entirely wrong. But the fact is that, this time, I’m a bit stumped. Even the all-encompassing Internet, so far, isn’t helping much. Continue reading →

“The author of a detective story…”

10 Thursday Jun 2021

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Elizabethan espionage, History, John Bossy, The Tom Walsingham Mysteries, writing

You know those moments – those moments when a book speaks to you? When you read something that might have been written exactly for you to find it? Well, I had a rather peculiar moment of that kind, yesterday… Continue reading →

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