by Claire | Aug 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Keeping wildlife as pets has become a growing trend in the UK. This is partly due to social media. When influencers pose with exotic animals online it can plant the seed that it’s OK to take on a more unusual pet. But sadly for the animals many aren’t looked after...
by Claire | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Readers Families are fascinating to me – as a mum and grandma, but also as an author. Siblings don’t automatically get along well together; personality clashes happen! And in blended families, children who have started life with a different parent might find it...
by Claire | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Vienna is incredibly magical at Christmas time… every year during November the squares in the city are transformed to charming markets selling crafts, clothing, beautiful ornaments, culinary delights and warming drinks including Glühwein (German mulled wine). If you...
by Claire | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Grab your copy of the brand-new, utterly thrilling and totally epic historical adventure, Valour! My new novel, Valour, takes place in southern Hungary of the 1220s, and details a borderland struggle between the religious order that would become the Teutonic Knights...
by Claire | Aug 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Marriage Season and Pride and Prejudice Sybella & Lucie Lovatt are two country sisters like Jane and Elizabeth Bennett, who are introduced to the Beau Monde and without losing their unspoiled natures and individual spirit find enduring love (and a fine country...