A fellow author once said to me, ‘Of course, the two great cliché subjects for historical novels are the First World War and Venice.’ Well, I wrote my First World War novel (The Somme Stations) in 2011, and my Venice novel, The Night in Venice, is out next week from Weidenfeld.
The two central characters (a fourteen-year-old g…
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