I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set..

Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels becaus….

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do..

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date s….

It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem amo….

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming..

For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move….