by Nia Beynon | Jun 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
‘Tonight, of all nights, the veil between this world and the next is very fragile’. I have lived on the Isle of Wight for over 30 years but never had the nerve to go on the Halloween ghost walk at the castle. Finally, in the name of research for A Halloween Murder, I...
by Nia Beynon | May 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
All Change at Harbour House is out now! Get your copy here. I found doing the research for Dunkirk eye-opening, awe-inspiring and humbling. Obviously, most people know about the amazing rescue of over three hundred and fifty-seven thousand troops from the beaches of...
by Nia Beynon | May 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
The general strike in 1926 was mainly out of sympathy for the miners. Because of certain changes internationally, it became difficult to export coal at a price that remained profitable for the mine owners. Therefore they cut the wages of the men from £6.00 a week to...
by Nia Beynon | May 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
In 1928, Agatha Christie took her first solo trip abroad, a year after her divorce from Archie Christie. Originally, she planned a trip to the West Indies. But at a supper party two days before her scheduled departure, her friends Katherine and Leonard Woolley...
by Nia Beynon | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
There are many examples of stories about twins (or triplets, in one case), both in fiction and real life. As a writer, I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of twins, and I’m clearly not the only one. These are some of the stories I had in mind while I was writing...
