by jenna | May 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
I have young children, making it difficult for me to jet off to any research destination when I need to, but for the Colline del Prosecco, the setting of A Taste of Italian Sunshine, the May/June half-term (which we call the Pentecost holidays where I live in Bavaria)...
by jenna | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
While on holiday in Spain in June 2010, we returned to our villa to find it had been burgled. Standing outside the open window, we didn’t know whether the perpetrators were still inside, and it was terrifying. I read a lot of crime fiction, and that paralysing fear...
by jenna | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Why did I take my characters to the Isle of Sheppey in Eagle of Mercia I hear you cry. Well, the reasoning was sound – there was a monastery on the Isle of Sheppey, just off the coast of Kent, and it’s written that Viking raiders were there ‘Here heathen men raided...
by jenna | May 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Hello readers, and welcome to The Eagle of Mercia Chronicles. Hopefully, our young hero, Icel, an orphaned youth living at the Mercian royal centre of Tamworth, has already won your heart. If not, I can promise you stories of courage, deadly danger, sorrow and a...
by jenna | Apr 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Corfu – a love story! So many of my novels are set on the gorgeous Greek island of Corfu where I have a home. From my very first holiday to the village of Kassiopi, through years of visiting the Mareblue Beach Hotel in Agios Spyridon, to finally buying my own house,...
