Louise Tregor
Set in Italy, England and Rhodesia, Louisa Treger’s The Dragon Lady is a work of historical fiction based on the life story of a truly remarkable, yet little known woman named Virginia Courtauld. It is a sumptuous tale of murder and intrigue, which spans several decades following the First World War, but is largely focused on the time she spent living in Southern Rhodesia with her husband Stephen in the 1950s.
Icelandic Noir
I’ve been fascinated with Iceland my entire life. As a young American airman, my father was posted at a remote radar station on the Langanes Peninsula at the height of the Cold War. H2, as it was designated by the military, wasn’t the type of place you could bring your pregnant wife and two-year-old son, so my father was on the other side of the world the day I was born. My favourite memento from his posting was a pair of high-tech, Air Force-issue snow boots that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a Bond film.