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I just love historical fiction.

I like writing historical fiction.

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.