Julia very much enjoyed reading 'The Right Hand of the Sun ' and did the interview with Anita Mason for us.

J: In your Acknowledgements, you mention ‘intractable difficulties' associated with the writing of this novel. Could you say what these were, and how you managed to surmount them?

The Conquistadors and their exploits, not to mention their exploitation of the native Empires of South America, have inspired daunting numbers of novels, plays, films and works of graphic art. Anita Mason's blockbuster (501 pages in a weighty hardback with a striking gold-accented Aztec-style dustjacket) has to rank amongst the most adventurous and thought-provoking examples of this genre.