Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

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I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

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After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

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I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.

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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

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I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.

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If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

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