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... a bewitching tale of good, evil and all the shades in-between...
Rosie Andrews, best-selling author of The Leviathan, joined us for an evening event at The Book Nook in January.
She gave us a couple of readings and, in an interview with The Book Nook's Sara Morley, she shared some fascinating insights into her creative process and her sources of inspiration – particularly her abiding fascination for all things 17th Century.
Rosie studied the era at Cambridge and her literary influences from the period include John Milton and Thomas Hobbes – author, of course, of the original Leviathan.
She told us too about her lifelong interest in mythical (or are they?) beasts, witchcraft and the supernatural...
Best-selling author Rosie Andrews with The Book Nook's Sara Morley
Published in hardback in 2022, The Leviathan quickly became a Sunday Times best-seller. Rosie's visit to The Book Nook coincided with its paperback publication... and she kindly signed a few extra copies for us. Inquire within...
Rosie Andrews was born and grew up in Liverpool, as the third of twelve children. She studied History at Cambridge before becoming an English teacher. She lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and daughter.
24th March 1703
A place far from the sea...
"She is awake. And I must remind myself of how it began. The end of all things. It was a time of witches, it was a time of saints. A time when rabbits hunted foxes, when children came into the world without their heads, and kings lost theirs on the scaffold. The world was turned upside down, or so some said. Weep, England, weep, the broadsheets cried, and the poets and philosophers, fearing for their own necks, delayed their poems and philosophies, or incarcerated them in Latin and impenetrable Greek, to be exhumed at a more enlightened date."