What makes an author change the kind of books they write? Even when they’re well known and successful for the genre they’re writing in? Lizzie Lane, best known for her saga series, explains why she took a jump into the unknown with a new book set 2,000 years earlier, during the time of the Roman […]
Homes for heroes: the council house revolution
There’s no reason to be snobbish about council houses, says Lizzie Lane. For the people who moved into the first ones, built in the interwar period, they were the clean and comfortable ‘homes for heroes’ they’d been promised – far better than the crowded, pest-infected slums they left behind. Sturdy semi detached and terraced houses […]