For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling…

- Sara Sheridan

Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, …

- Sara Sheridan

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our live…

- Sara Sheridan

It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irat…

- Sara Sheridan

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must…

- Sara Sheridan

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

- Sara Sheridan

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

- Sara Sheridan

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my …

- Sara Sheridan

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we c…

- Sara Sheridan