Memory Isn't A Theme; It's Part Of

Imagine The Consequences Of Having The First Woman Prime Minister Who Is The Milk Snatcher. [margaret Thatcher] Takes Away The Nourishment Of The Nation.

Wolf Hall Attempts To Duplicate Not The Historian's Chronology But The Way Memory Works: In Leaps, Loops, Flashes.

For Myself, The Only Way I Know How To Make A Book Is To Construct It Like A Collage: A Bit Of Dialogue Here, A Scrap Of Narrative, An Isolated Description Of A Common Object, An Elaborate Running Metaphor Which Threads Between The Sequences And Holds Different Narrative Lines Together.

My First Book Was A Historical Novel. I Started Writing In 1974. In Those Days, Historical Novels Meant Ladies With Swelling Bosoms On The Cover. Basically, It Meant Historical Romance. It Was Not Respectable As A Genre.

Florence And Milan Had Given Him Ideas More Flexible Than Those Of People Who'd Stayed At Home.