In this abridged version of an address to the Catholic Writers' Guild at Farm Street, London, Catholic Herald associate editor Simon Caldwell says Catholics of today should tell great stories to this generation.
I am a member of that ever rare breed: a Catholic novelist. In autumn last year I published The Beast of Bethulia Park, my debut thriller which can be described as both Catholic and a novel and which is highly contemporary.
Unconsciously, I suppose, the book was “Catholic” because I sought deliberately to imbue my characters with souls. I wanted to write a work of fiction that was true to how I experienced good and evil within my own heart and externally in the world.
