Hannah Fielding's Blog, page 45
August 9, 2018
The lyre: playing the music of Ancient Greece
If I could create a ‘booktrack’ for my new novel Aphrodite’s Tears (a musical soundtrack to which you listen while reading), it would feature prominently one instrument: the lyre. Here […]
August 6, 2018
On authors reading their own novels
In July, author Michael Ondaatje was awarded the ‘Golden’ Man Booker Prize, when his novel The English Patient was voted the most popular Man Booker Prize-winner of all time. In his […]
August 2, 2018
A brief overview of Ancient Greek architecture
My interest in ancient civilisations began with the stories I was told by my parents and governess in childhood – but it was cemented by glimpses of the physical remains of […]
July 30, 2018
‘Hope costs nothing’: The life and legacy of French novelist Colette
I was thrilled to read of a new movie being released in September based upon the life of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Here is the trailer for Colette: Setting aside the fact […]
July 26, 2018
Favourite settings from my fiction
‘We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.’ So wrote novelist Anais Nin. What a perfect explanation for the inner need to travel, don’t […]
July 23, 2018
Amphitrite – an overlooked Greek goddess
Imagine you are a sea nymph, one of the fifty daughters born to Nereus and Doris (the daughter of Oceanus). You are perfectly happy in your life in the ocean – […]
July 19, 2018
History unearthed: Olympia, Greece
The heroine of my latest novel, Aphrodite’s Tears, is an archaeologist with a passion for ancient civilisations. I imagine she would have been thrilled to read of a recent discovery […]
July 16, 2018
Better the dream than the reality? On romantic heroes
‘Not a man, but a work of art…’ This is how Italian author Elena Ferrante described her latest screen crush in her Weekend column for the Guardian last week. Ferrante […]
July 12, 2018
Heaven under my feet
Heaven. That is my writing spot today. I have been writing my blog for almost seven years now. Seven years! In that time I have written in many different locations, […]
July 9, 2018
Ancient goddesses of love: Meet Aphrodite’s counterparts
My new novel, Aphrodite’s Tears, brings together two of my great loves: mythology and romance. It is commonly known that Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love, sexuality and beauty (we […]
