by jenna | May 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
In A Taste of Italian Sunshine you can take an armchair wine tasting tour around the Conegliano-Valdobbiadene region with seven different varieties of prosecco selected by our main character Jenn, in her work as a wine buyer. Unfortunately, I made up these wines for...
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...
