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

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

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

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

I have a huge passion for literature.

I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.