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      • Behind the bricks
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          • Walls of Silence: Part I
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          • Walls of Silence: Part III
          • Walls of Silence: Part IV
          • Walls of Silence: Part V
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        • Foul Trade: character dossiers
        • Foul Trade: book club topics
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        • Found Drowned: smoke and mirrors
        • Found Drowned: book club topics
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Influences

All writers need to be inspired. Not just by the topics they are researching or the story they are writing, but by the world around them. Here are some of the things that have, somewhere along the road of life, gone into making me tick.

Style and Substance: the glamour of 1930’s motorcars

Theatre card for Tivoli 1933. BK Duncan

Music halls and all things theatrical, darling

Historical fiction. Edwardian family. From Ruth Wade collection

The past in the present

A writer's influences. The making of novelist Ruth Wade / BK Duncan

The melting pot

Women swapping stories at summer fete. Oral history. Research Ruth Wade

“I remember her wearing this, what a fright . . .”

Photot of teh Alhambra Palace by Ruth Wade

Research begins at home

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