Hannah Fielding's Blog, page 49
March 22, 2018
Five spectacular open-air theatres worldwide
I love going to the theatre. When I sit in my seat, listening to the orchestra tune up, looking around at all the grandeur of the auditorium, my stomach flutters […]
March 19, 2018
‘Finding your tribe’ (rather than robots) in bookstores
A recent news headline in The Bookseller caught my eye: ‘Bookshops staffed with robots to open in Beijing’. With a heavy heart, I clicked the article and read about the […]
March 15, 2018
A passion for archaeology: ‘to walk where ancient feet have trod’
In my new novel, Aphrodite’s Tears, set in the 1970s, the heroine Oriel is an archaeologist who has been hired to work on a subsea exploration around the small, private […]
March 12, 2018
Books in the news: from the neglected to the treasured
‘Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.’ So said author Emilie Buchwald. Recently, though, it was reported in the press that just half of preschool children in […]
March 8, 2018
Don’t look back! A lesson from Orpheus and Eurydice of Greek mythology
I find inspiration for my writing from all kinds of sources. For Burning Embers, I was inspired by the poetry of French poet Leconte de Lisle; for The Echoes of […]
March 5, 2018
Claude Debussy: an inspiration for my writing
This month, music-lovers the world over are celebrating the life and works of a French composer on the centenary of his death. Claude Debussy; how often do his melodies drift […]
March 1, 2018
Fidelity: an essential ingredient for romantic love?
The modern concept of romantic love owes much to the roman of medieval times: a story told in one of the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Romanian) about […]
February 26, 2018
Meet the fathers of philosophy: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
Did you know that to this day, much of the Western way of thinking is derived from the philosophical explorations of three men of Ancient Greece? Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. […]
February 22, 2018
Setting romance in inspiring settings
What ties together all of my novels? Romance, of course; but more than that, each is set in an inspiring place. My debut novel, Burning Embers, is set in rural […]
February 19, 2018
Peril, bravado and tragedy: the Greek tradition of sponge diving
Did you know that the very first form of diving was sponge diving? In ancient times, the people of the Greek islands did not dive for pleasure as we do […]
