Feb 7, 2017
This is a poem written by my lovely husband about our beautiful dog Phoebe who died four weeks ago.
Jan 19, 2017
There are so many choices for an author to make when embarking on a novel. What time period? What setting? What structure? What genre? What characters? What events? How true should it be to real history? What is the time frame? What is it all really about? Many of...
Dec 20, 2016
As you may know my latest Lavender Road novel, LONDON CALLING, came out in paperback last week. Set right in the middle of the Second World War, LONDON CALLING follows the lives of a number of people living in street in London. Lavender Road is a perfectly ordinary...
Dec 6, 2016
Stop press! My latest novel LONDON CALLING comes out in paperback in the UK, Europe and Commonwealth next week. I have just received my advance copies and they are looking good! London Calling is set in the middle of the Second World War. It follows the lives of a...
Sep 6, 2016
I recently read an excellent article by Professor Alexandra Harris in The Author Magazine about the best weather for writing. Traditionally people have associated springtime with artistic creativity, all those budding plants and trees somehow linked with the...
