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Tough Times on Coronation Close by Lizzie Lane is out now! Get your copy 📖 Previous to the late fifties when it relocated to Lulsgate, south of the city, Bristol Airport was situated at Whitchurch (now a sprawling housing estate). It was mainly used for pleasure, air...

Almost two years ago, a visit to the beautiful village of Cockington in Devon, with its old forge and thatched cottages, made me wonder what it would be like to live in a place thatseemed to belong to another time. The idea for my new series, set in a living history...

In the 1930s, Cary Grant lived with actor, Randolph Scott. Initially they shared a small home in Beverly Hills and later, they moved to a beachside house in Santa Monica where guests including Noel Coward and Errol Flynn. Grant and Scott lived together, on and off,...

The idea for The Last Mrs Sinclair came, as novels often do, from a combination of different inspirations. In early 2024, I was reading articles about how some younger women, disillusioned with the promises of feminism, had decided to abandon their careers and their...

One of the most enjoyable things, for me, about writing Regency romance is the dialogue. It’s so incredible rich and flexible, and conveys such a lot. A character can easily use several different registers in the same chapter – my hero will speak in one way to his friends, another to his servants, and yet another to the heroine. Women and men employ different words; British English isn’t like that any more, though other languages are. There are strict rules and social conventions governing vocabulary, and who can say what to whom, but the great thing about rules is the pleasure to be had in breaking them. And they can be surprisingly useful in advancing the plot. In one of my novels, the heroine reveals that she’s involved in a scandalous relationship with the hero just by using his first name carelessly, even though what she actually says is completely innocent.

As someone who LOVES a romcom – books, films, TV shows – I had a blast writing I Knew You Were Trouble. I packed in all my fave romcom elements – an unusual meet cute, a pacy revenge plot, fabulous supporting characters, an ‘Everywoman’ heroine to champion and a...

When I started writing Playing for Keeps in Starr’s Fall, I was excited to explore the world of boardgame cafés because I’ve loved going to a few different ones with my children and discovering new games. But what really took me down memory lane was the character of...

The Shadow on the Bridge – A Murder Mystery   My book ideas evolve in various ways, but The Shadow on the Bridge was an amazing lightbulb moment.   One day whilst driving on the outskirts of Thetford (in Norfolk), I spotted a sign for the Nuns’ Bridges and I soon fell...

In the early 17th Century, the mixed orchard, meadow, pasture and arable land referred to as "the Convent Garden" was owned by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of St Peter, Westminster lying between modern-day St Martin's Lane, Drury Lane, and Floral Street and...