Marilyn Pemberton

Jan 8, 2025 | historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |Marilyn Pemberton

BY MARILYN PEMBERTONFiona Davis had always wanted to set a book at the Metropolitan Museum but was ‘overwhelmed by the sheer size of the building, not to mention the many departments and employees.’ It was an article in The New York Times that finally gave her the hook she needed. The article told of a ‘viral photo of a celebrity that exposed an international art theft.

Jul 3, 2024 | historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |Marilyn Pemberton

BY MARILYN PEMBERTONAfter the publication of her third historical novel set in South America, Annamaria Alfieri’s agent and editor thought it was time for her to write a series. With this challenge set before her, Alfieri knew that she would have to find a place and a time that would allow her to write many stories. “I had taken a couple of trips to Africa by then and had fallen in love with being there,’ she relates.

Jan 31, 2024 | historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |Marilyn Pemberton

WRITTEN BY MARILYN PEMBERTONFact: December 1954, Holloway Prison: Styllou Christofi, a Cypriot grandmother, is hanged for the murder of her German daughter-in-law, Hella. Fiction: December 1954, Holloway Prison: Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, is hanged for the murder of her German daughter-in-law, Hedy. Eleni Kyriacou first heard about Styllou Christofi in 2017 when she was at an exhibition and read an extract from the executioner Albert Pierrepoint’s memoir.