by Nia Beynon | Feb 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Detection Club is the stuff of literary legend—a gathering of the greatest minds in mystery fiction who turned the art of whodunits into a collaborative pursuit. What started as a few friends gathering for supper at the home of Anthony Berkeley in North London in...
by Nia Beynon | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Thames barge being flat bottomed could sail in rivers and shallow waters that bigger crafts couldn’t. They had no keel but lee boards which could be raised and lowered to give stability when out to sea. They had a vast quantity of rust red sails which when raised...
by Nia Beynon | Jan 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
I often find that it’s when I take a break from writing that the ideas start to flow, and that’s definitely what happened with The Many Futures of Maddy Hart. A few years ago, I’d taken a couple of days off and gone to Nottingham alone to relax and read and do some...
by Nia Beynon | Jan 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
In The House of Echoes my Tudor heroine is Anne Brandon, Baroness Grey. She has been forgotten by history but she was at the heart of the Tudor court at one of its most volatile periods. During her lifetime, Anne witnessed all six of Henry VIII’s wives be raised high...
by Nia Beynon | Jan 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
This holiday, I recommended to my friend that she read a psychological thriller by a well-known author in the genre, who has written hit after hit. I am a big fan of theirs, and given how much I enjoyed the book, I thought she would have a similar response, but when...
