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A Midwife’s Visit on a Stormy Night by Kate Eastham
A Fresh Start for the Country Nurse is out today! I grew up in a close-knit farming community in rural Lancashire in the sixties and seventies and spent many long, happy days on my grandparents’ farm – bringing in the cows for milking, collecting eggs, feeding calves...
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The Original Queens of the Channel
More people have conquered Everest than have swum the twenty-one-mile English Channel. Only five men had managed it before American Olympic swimmer, Gertrude Ederle, made an attempt in August 1925. However, early into the swim, her coach, Jabez Wolffe, inexplicably...
The History that Inspired Murder at Mill Ponds House
Murder at Mill Ponds House is set in 1924 when Britain was still reeling from the repercussions of the First World War. After the armistice was signed in 1918, Prime Minister David Lloyd George promised to improve the standard of living for returning soldiers and...
Gemma Rogers’ Top 5 Cat & Mouse Thrillers
I do love a cat and mouse thriller, something that has you on the edge of your seat, chewing your fingernails hoping the protagonist can get away from the villain(s) who is chasing them. These make for fantastic books and excellent movies. Here are my top five cat and...
Dorothy Forster and her fashions
Dorothy Forster, the heroine of my new timeslip novel, The Secrets of the Rose, was born in 1686 and lived in the magnificent Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland. One of the most inspiring things about writing about Dorothy is that there are two portraits of her at...
The Romance of the Northern Lights by Zoë Folbigg
Under One Sky by Zoë Folbigg is out today! Click to read 💖 I didn’t plan to set a book under the Northern Lights, but the minute I set foot in a remote town in Arctic Norway on a trip for my husband’s 40th birthday, I knew the location would feature in a future love...
The Victorian Architecture That Inspired The House of Light and Shadows
I grew up in the town of Eureka, California which is noted for things like redwoods and earthquakes, but also for its Victorian architecture. Notable Victorian buildings in Eureka include the Pink Lady, which is now a bed and breakfast, and the Carson Mansion, which...
What is the detection club?
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...
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