LG: I deliberately avoid dates because I try never to look back, but rather to look about me. RN: Can you begin by telling me about your use of time in your fiction? This interview took place in June 1989 at Leon Garfield's home in North London. Among his best known works are: Jack Holborn (1964), Devil-in-the-Fog (1966), Smith (1967), Black Jack (1969), The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris (1971), The Prisoners of September (1975), The House of Hanover: England in the Eighteenth Century (1976), The Pleasure Garden (1976), The Apprentices (1978), The Confidence Man (1978), The Night of the Comet (1979), John Diamond (1980), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1980, completion of Charles Dickens's novel), The House of Cards (1982), The Wedding Ghost (1984), Guilt and Gingerbread (1984), Shakespeare Stories (1985), The December Rose (1986), The Empty Sleeve (1988), and The Blewcoat Boy (1989). His books have been widely translated and he has won literary awards in the United States, Holland, Sweden, France, and England. Leon Garfield, the noted author of mystery and adventure novels, and reteller of myths and stories from Shakespeare, is among England's most acclaimed writers of historical fiction for young adults.
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