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The Norfolk Murders: Why Bacton Wood? The plan was always a trilogy for Ashley Knight. I wanted to progress the relationships and some themes throughout all three books. I also knew the second book would be at a Hunstanton caravan park, and the third would start in a...

One of the questions I’m often asked is whether the storylines and characters in my novels are based on real life people or events. The truth is that most things that happen to me, good or bad, find their way into my writing, and this book was inspired by a true story...

I’m a great believer in ‘write about what you know’ but I was only a small child during WW2 and the memories of that time are few and far between. I do vaguely remember being bundled up in a siren suit, a Mickey Mouse gas mask slung around my neck and me crying as my...

Plants and herbs have always fascinated me, by enhancing the flavours in our food, from their healing properties - not to mention those amazing perfumes. By soaking a handful of petals from Dad's rose tree in cold water for a few weeks, I ventured into making a...

A blog post by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller My mother was Anglo Indian, the daughter of Raja in India and spent four years living with her Indian family just before the war. She wrote her memoirs of that time and the first part of this two book series is based...

The Greatest Kindness of All My new novel, A Single Act of Kindness, is about introverted Tilda, who surprises herself by helping down-on-his-luck Milo. This generous act changes her own life in ways she never expected. I hope the story demonstrates how kindness...

A Duke of One's Own is now in Prime Reading! Click to get your copy 🧡 If you read a lot of Regency romance – or watch Bridgerton – you may have noticed that it very rarely rains in the 1810s. Georgette Heyer started this extreme lack of precipitation in her novels,...

I have to begin by confessing that my characters tend to control me. I may think I know the general direction in which they are heading, but with every one of my twenty-seven published books, this has never been the case. I’ve given in now – they do what they want,...

I absolutely love writing about nightmare dates. Anyone who has been single probably has their own collection of disastrous date stories. What is different for me though is that I actually get to use mine for something; I take inspiration from them for my books. I am...