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Below you can read an  interview published on the Profile site
INTERVIEW WITH JOHN RICHARD BROUGHTON
AUTHOR OF THE PURPLE THREAD

I was born in Cleethorpes Lincolnshire UK in 1948: just one of the post-war babies. After attending grammar school and studying to the sound of Bob Dylan I went to Nottingham University and studied Medieval and Modern History (Archaeology subsidiary). I have done many different jobs while living in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Leamington, Glossop, the Scilly Isles, Puglia and Calabria. They include teaching English and History, managing a Day Care Centre, being a Director of a Trade Institute and teaching university students English. I even tried being a fisherman and a flower picker when I was on St. Agnes, Scilly. I have lived in Calabria since 1992 where I settled into a long-term job, for once, at the University of Calabria teaching English for 25 years. Now retired, I have written 23 historical novels to be found on Amazon.

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HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE PURPLE THREAD TO A NEW READER?
  • The Purple Thread is a blend of historical fiction and philosophy. The reader can plunge into the eighth century and meet hero-warriors, missionaries, saints, heretics, immoral bishops and ordinary people of the time.
WHAT WAS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE PURPLE THREAD ?
  • I found an intriguing letter sent by missionaries in Thuringia in the eighth century to the Abbess of Wimborne. The fate of two former slaves mentioned there sparked off the plot.
WHICH AUTHORS DO YOU ADMIRE? HOW HAVE THEY INFLUENCED YOUR WRITING STYLE?
  • Historical novelists like Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett. But I do not consciously copy anyone else's style.
CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THE LOCATIONS IN YOUR BOOK?
  • All of my books are set in the Anglo-Saxon period but The Purple Thread takes the reader across present-day France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy as well as the SW of England.
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO ASPIRING AUTHORS?
  • Believe in yourself. Just write and only revise when you've finished. In my case I revise chapter by chapter, then, the whole book.
WHAT'S YOUR WRITING PROCESS?
  • I take copious research notes and use a pen and notebook, but then I type directly on the keyboard onto a Word document.
WHICH CHARACTER IN THE PURPLE THREAD HAS HAD THE GREATEST IMPACT ON READERS?
  • A close call, this. Probably the main character Begiloc, but people admire the female protagonist Leoba. Great, because the title of the book is from her dream. Some reviewers have enjoyed the character of Begiloc's best friend Meryn, cheerful and brave in the face of atrocious misfortune.
IF THE PURPLE THREAD WERE TO BE ADAPTED FOR TV OR FILM, WHO WOULD YOU SEE IN THE LEAD ROLE? WHO DID YOU HAVE IN YOUR MIND’S EYE WHEN YOU WROTE HIM/HER?
  • I'm not a cinema expert. I think an actor with a slight Cornish accent would be ideal. As in the audiobook version available on Audible.
HOW HAVE READERS RESPONDED TO THE PURPLE THREAD?
  • Almost every review is 5-star and pleasingly positive, especially because this was my first (of currently 18) novels.
WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON NOW?
  • I decided to branch away from historical novels temporarily to freshen my head! The result is a mystery novel The Quasimodo Killings and a sci-fi novel The Remnant.
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Do you want to find out about Anglo-Saxon kingdoms? This author's books have got you covered, icluding lifestyle, food, dress, crafts, politics, kings and queens, ealdormen and the Anglo-Saxon church. The end of paganism in England is the subject of a whole novel. Do you want to learn about early medieval Welsh history? Then try the Bretland trilogy. Would you like to travel back in time? You can follow Jake Conley's paranormal activities in the series of seven novels that trnsport you with Jake toAnglo-Saxon England. Angenga is a novel that looks at quantum physics and wormholes to plunge you back into Viking times. What about the Viking diaspora? Read Expulsion to discover where the Vikings went after Dublin.