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I was pre-destined to write about the workhouse, particularly the St. Tydfil’s Union Workhouse in Merthyr Tydfil, as I was born there. It was no longer a workhouse by then but one of the town’s busy hospitals. St. Tydfil’s was the hospital I was rushed to when a...

Three's a Crowd by Christy McKellen is a steamy romance read set during the Cannes Film Festival, out today! Click to read for 99p 🎬 The Cannes Film Festival is one of those “another-world” type of events that I’d had on my bucket list for a very long time. Being a...

Writing the young female detective in Her Husband’s Lie I am a child of Seventies detective series, a great era for the genre, particularly in the US where the quirky, maverick, sometimes bumbling investigator would inevitably go on to solve the case with oodles of...

Old Girls Behaving Badly by Kate Galley is out today! Get your copy here 👵🏻🧡 My job as a mobile hairdresser brings me into daily contact with the older generation. There are those who like the convenience of having a home visit and avoiding the bother of parking in...

There are some ‘secondary’ characters in novels that leap off the page, steal all the scenes and capture people’s hearts. In One Greek Summer Wedding that character is the heroine’s aunt, Margot Jones!   Margot is a boss bitch entrepreneur, the CEO of luggage company...

The Takedown by Evie Hunter is out today! Get your copy 💥 Being a firm believer in unnecessary research, when my editor suggested setting my next revenge crime thriller in an exotic location I didn’t have to think about where. The world of superyachts sounds...

Meet Mary Churchill! A Prime Minister's daughter and an Army Girl Behind the Guns 💥 Meet the remarkable figure who inspired Fenella J Miller's brand new novel #ArmyGirlsBehindtheGuns! Read Fenella's blog post: The Prime Minister’s daughter, Mary, joined the ATS when...

When I was writing My (not so) Perfect Summer, I had the opportunity to think back on some of the summer jobs I did when I was at university. My children are just through the ‘summer job’ phase, as they’re both in full-time employment, but they seem to have fared...