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Catherine Mayo

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Catherine Mayo grew up in Auckland and was a compulsive reader and dreamer. With academics in her DNA (her dad was a research scientist and her grandfather a professor of philosophy) it was taken for granted she would follow the same path. She studied many things at Auckland University - history, philosophy, geology, French, music, performance violin and art history - before life took an unexpected turn and she began an apprenticeship in violin-making and restoration. About 10 years ago she started writing, urged on by the stories and dreams that filled her head since she was a child. She has since won several prizes in short story competitions. Murder at Mykenai is her first book.

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There is a third book, but it is still at second draft stage.

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Catherine Mayo I would go to Ancient Greece - to Bronze Age Greece at the time of the Trojan War, to meet my main characters in Murder at Mykenai and The Bow.
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I would go to Ancient Greece - to Bronze Age Greece at the time of the Trojan War, to meet my main characters in Murder at Mykenai and The Bow.
I would especially like to meet Odysseus, both as a teenager and as a young man.(less)
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SPQR The Cataline Conspiracy

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