“History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
