Sarah Dunant's Blog, page 2

Half way across America

Well, just when I thought I couldn't stand another plane ride (why is it that every plane I take gets delayed)  I hit Dallas and the Dallas Art Musuem for the greatest gig inthe world. Fabulous hall, big and intimate at the same time, an audience who were so up for talking history ( because of course the past is also the present – just consider how much religion is once again global politics. I truly believe that if you want to understand how people feel and think when their lives are...

The last Waltz ( apologies to the Band)

Maybe this is the hardest of all. It is spring here in England after an  especially gruelling winter: the first blossoms and blue blue skies. Very tender and special, as only English springs can be. But I have to get on another plane tomorrow,  this time heading West to New York and then……

Dallas, Boulder, Portland, Nashville, Atlantic Beach, Connecticut.  I know that once I get off the plane and start I will get a second wind and enjoy it, since meeting people and talking renaissance history ...

@brodiehearnden did you say y…

@brodiehearnden did you say you were in Melbourne. I'm there 9th and 10th. Centre for books and Idea and Eltham library. Any use?

@brodiehearnden I hit Austral…

@brodiehearnden I hit Australia next Sunday. sarahdunant.com for dates everywhere!

Another year another journey

First, I like to apologise to all those who have visited this site and not had me respond to their posting. I have been travelling a great deal over the last six months, then teaching in St Louis for a month, and then trying to get my feet back on planet earth, and I stopped going on line for a while. When I did I found the site full of spam, which ( thank you so much,  Joseph!) has now been erased so the landscape is much clearer. Replies are now on line to most postings.

I am heading off to ...

Too much winter here. Heading …

Too much winter here. Heading to Australian sun for an

@ReginaMarler yes, yes. Well…

@ReginaMarler yes, yes. Well, but mad and on a plane to Australia for three weeks on Sunday. Gulp! and you?

Too much winter here. Heading …

Too much winter here. Heading off to the Australian sun for festival of literature. Anyone there in Adelaide?

@WGallagher I think you coul…

@WGallagher I think you could give the movie a miss personally. B

@clyons077 thank you! Everyo…

@clyons077 thank you! Everyone says women read historical fiction, not men. So I am delighted you prove them wrong.