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Author · Storyteller
Sebastian Lane
@sebastianlane
Historical Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Sebastian Lane writes mainly in historical fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A book is made from hundreds of decisions nobody sees.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Sebastian Lane
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Later first draft
The Last Catalogue
In 1892 Glasgow, a junior cataloguer at a private lending library discovers that several books have been altered, not stolen, and that the changes point to a hidden dispute between a dead benefactor and the city’s shipping elite. As she follows the trail through reading rooms, warehouses and committee offices, she learns that the missing pages are less important than what someone is trying to keep out of the record altogether.
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