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John Harwood

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John Harwood is the author of two previous novels of Victorian Gothic suspense. Aside from fiction, his published work includes biography, poetry, political journalism and literary history. His acclaimed first novel, The Ghost Writer, won the International Horror Guild's First Novel Award. He lives in Hobart, Australia. ...more

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Love your books! What are you working on now,and will it be available soon? Thanks!
John Harwood Thank you, Darlene. I'm afraid all I can say - I'm deeply superstitious about talking about work in progress - is that I'm working on another 19th cen…moreThank you, Darlene. I'm afraid all I can say - I'm deeply superstitious about talking about work in progress - is that I'm working on another 19th century narrative, but I still have no idea how long it's going to take.


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John Harwood Good morning, Brian. All I can add to the reply above is that I don't really know what I'm aiming for until quite late in the writing process; e.g. wi…moreGood morning, Brian. All I can add to the reply above is that I don't really know what I'm aiming for until quite late in the writing process; e.g. with 'The Ghost Writer', several of the 'Viola Hatherley' stories came first: I knew there would be a contemporary frame around them, but the first version of Gerard's story looked nothing like the finished book. Which didn't begin to take shape until well into the second year of work...(less)
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“Perhaps I'd be happier if I had a boring job like Filly, but then I wouldn't have any time to myself. I waste so much time and then I resent it when I don't have time to waste.”
― John Harwood, The Ghost Writer
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“It is like remembering two different lives at once...and wondering which of them is mine...”
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“We think of the mind as enclosed within the narrow compass of the skull, but we could equally imagine a cavern filled with dark water and connected by some subterranean passage, to the limitless depths of the ocean, and think of each individual mind as a droplet of one great oceanic Mind which contains everything: all the gods and demons, the paradises and underworlds of every religion on earth, all history, all knowledge, everything that has ever happened. A mind upon which it could truly be said that nothing is lost, not so much as the fall of a sparrow...”
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