Researching the novel THE SHINING CITY
I knew from the start that writing a novel set in Moorish Spain would take a lot of work. I only had a general idea about what life was like […]
What Spain owes to the Moors
One of the advantages of writing books about Spain is that you have a great excuse to trot about the countryside investigating things. During the research for my novel THE […]
Latest novel: The Shining City
I loved researching the history behind my latest novel THE SHINING CITY. Besides reading a lot about the period, I made many trips to the archaeological site of Madinat al Zahra, […]