…posting pictures from her travels around the world to give readers a glimpse of the bits and pieces that proved to be inspirations for her novels. From The Middle Pier…

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…with ad boxes for bridal hair, hen party ideas and rings. I understand that FB isn’t slow on the uptake when new parents use the site to share pictures of…

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…a head injury and her mother gone. Twenty years later Marnie heads back to Scotland seeking answers to what happened, but in the small town of Galloway, her mother’s disappearance…

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…they have inspired many things including films, video games, performances and fashion. 150 years of Alice cannot help but make us wonder… Which books of our generation will still be…

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A bite size, easily accessible history of protest from the 20th to beginning of the 21st century, covering everything from the Suffragettes to Je Suis Charlie. Comprehensive and easy to…

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…as 2018 marks 50 years since Alanna’s first book was published! She was given a beautiful cake featuring the cover of Murder Lies Waiting: Many of her fellow Scottish crime…

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Susan Wooldridge‘s novel The Hidden Dance has won the award for Best Debut Novel in this year’s Big Red Read. Not only that, but it was also the runner up…

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Woman & Home magazine has picked Sophia’s Secret, by Susanna Kearsley – ‘a romantic novel with a twist’ – as one of their 5 Best Time-Slip Novels: ‘A moving story…this…

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…won 2nd place in the Best Microblog category for his tweets @bookwalter – second only to the long-standing bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with word that it was a close battle…

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…writing life. Like a rolling snowball accumulating greater and greater heft, ready to leave you breathless on contact. Instead, Lee’s one-hit-wonder (in the best sense of the word) forcibly struck…

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…soul-chilling effects of the Dementors. (I’ll stop there, before I reveal just how much I know about Harry Potter. I can’t help it – I’m of the Potter generation!) And…

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If you had a late one last night or you think there’s a headache creeping up on you, perhaps it would be best to view the rest of this blog…

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…best ones being included in the book. The confused face :/ best sums up my reaction to the first line… What do you think? (Please feel free to communicate your…

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…Europe, for the war to end and the music to start again. June Tate June Tate was born in Southampton and spent the early years of her childhood in the…

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…estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. Her…

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…me. I would say that in roughly 80% of the books I’ve read in the past ten years featuring a strong female protagonist, she has been described as a redhead….

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…straits an ideal setting for a novel. My interest in the Napoleonic Wars goes back many years. It was first nourished by reading C.S. Forester as a boy; Hornblower was…

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…best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.” I would go a step further, adding that I am inspired not only by what I have heard,…

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…fatal mistake… Set against the backdrop of the bloody French Revolution, A Flag of Truce brilliantly combines a gripping adventure with intricate historical detail, to explosive effect.   Recommend This:…

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…they were inventing. It’s a mistake that- I admit it! – I’ve made myself once or twice over the years, and it tends to necessitate a good deal of re-writing….

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An utterly captivating reinvention of the Rapunzel fairytale weaved together with the scandalous life of one of the tale’s first tellers, Charlotte-Rose de la Force. Charlotte-Rose de la Force exiled…

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