THE HONOURS WEEK - 3. Research

Buy THE HONOURS: mrbsemporium.com/shop/books/the-honours/ Pre-order THE ICE HOUSE: mrbsemporium.com/shop/books/the-ice-house/ This week the podcast is dedicated to exploring my first novel, THE HONOURS. Today's episode dives into the research I did so I could write about 1930s England and the gun-obsessed protagonist, Delphine. I talk as honestly as I can about how I used research as a displacement activity, to avoid the scary work of actually starting the novel. And how my own life ended up providing the key piece of inspiration, when I finally remembered to look up. My hope for this week, aside from entertaining and informing you, is that you find yourself enthusiastic to support my work through buying THE HONOURS for yourself and friends, and also preordering the forthcoming sequel, THE ICE HOUSE. If you think helping me in this way would bring you some happiness, then kindly click one of the links below, and please do let me know once you've done so, so I can thank you. THE HONOURS PURCHASE LINKS Why not buy THE HONOURS via Mr B's Emporium? A brilliant independent bookshop who do worldwide shipping and are really great. They do a gift-wrap option so you can support me, an indie bookstore AND a friend who gets an ace present: mrbsemporium.com/shop/books/the-honours/ THE HONOURS via Wordery, with free worldwide shipping: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1 THE HONOURS via Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Honours-Tim-Clare/dp/1782114769 THE HONOURS Ebook: www.amazon.co.uk/Honours-Tim-Clar…ok/dp/B00O45B8JE THE HONOURS Audiobook: www.amazon.co.uk/The-Honours/dp/B00TSQKG1K THE ICE HOUSE PRE-ORDER LINKS The wonderful Mr B's Emporium have a pre-order link for THE ICE HOUSE. They deliver worldwide, and I'll make sure I pop in round publication time and sign any stock they've got, so any pre-orders via this link will - unless I have some terrible accident - by signed by me. If they get 100 pre-orders before launch, I'll make a little bit of exclusive extra content and throw that in with the books too: mrbsemporium.com/shop/books/the-ice-house/ THE ICE HOUSE via Wordery, with free worldwide shipping: https://wordery.com/the-ice-house-tim-clare-9781786894816 THE ICE HOUSE via Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Ice-House-Tim-Clare/dp/1786894815 THE ICE HOUSE Ebook: www.amazon.co.uk/Ice-House-Tim-Cl…ok/dp/B07K33598R Here's the blurb for THE HONOURS. 1935. NORFOLK. Its newest resident, Miss Delphine Venner, is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall’s elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable father. As she explores the house and discovers the secret network of hidden passages that thread through the estate, Delphine uncovers a world more dark and threatening than she ever imagined. With the help of head gamekeeper Mr Garforth, Delphine must learn the bloody lessons of war and find the soldier within herself in time to battle the deadly forces amassing in the woods . . . The Honours is a dark, glittering and dangerously unputdownable novel which invites you to enter a thrilling and fantastical world unlike any other.