Today I’ll be in Bristol for the Annual General Meeting of OutStories Bristol, the LGBT History group of which I am co-chair. Our guest speaker for the event is Bea Hitchman, author of the fabulous Petite Mort. In the talk Bea will look at, “at the ethical detective work of researching a novel and what writers owe – or don’t owe – to communities of the dead.”

The novel is set in Paris.

This may turn out to be more complicated than we had expected.

It also reminds me that there is a reason why media news reports are called “stories”. Everything that you read and watch about Paris over the next week or so will be a story written by someone. Remember that.