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Historia interviews, 2021 Crown Awards shortlists: Stuart Turton

15 November 2021 By Frances Owen

Stuart Turton, author of The Devil and the Dark Water, talks to Historia for the third in our series of interviews with authors whose books have been shortlisted for HWA Crown Awards. His novel, which is up for the Gold Crown Award, is described by the judges as “Holmes and Watson on a 17th-century Dutch East […]

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