CJ Carey’s Widowland is out this Thursday, set in an alternate 1953 where an alliance was made that meant the Nazis took Britain as a Protectorate.

It’s very liberating because you’re using elements of reality but actually you’re saying ‘what if’. One’s whole instinct as a journalist, and to an extent a historian, is to stick to the facts, so it was a really liberating thing to do but I thought I’ll do it under a different name and see – it’s for a different audience really.

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