1980 Olympics — Zimbabwe

Over the course of five books—soon to be six—I have perfected the art of twisting fiction to fit the facts. Several years ago, an enthusiastic London agent corrected me when I told her that my genre was ‘historical fiction’. “No,” she replied, having read a few sample chapters. “In UK literary circles, we refer to this genre as ‘faction’.” Referring to it as a portmanteau, she’d