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Where do you get your ideas from? This is the most common question readers ask writers, and I usually find it impossible to answer. Novels often arise from a combination of sources and influences but with my latest thriller, The Last Resort, I can pinpoint a very...

There is a reason that the works of Agatha Christie have endured for over a century and that so many television and film adaptations have been made of her books. Right from the publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920, she had readers hooked. But what is...

A Good Enough Mother by Sheila Norton is out on the 13th March. Pre-order your copy here 📖 In my new book A Good Enough Mother, I explore the difficulties of parenting two young children completely alone, while also holding down a job. I think it’s a theme that will...

The Clarks Factory Girls at War by May Ellis is out today!🎉 The 1914-18 war had a huge impact on the lives of ordinary people. Thousands of young men perished in horrific conditions, leaving their families and communities shattered. In The Clarks Factory Girls at War,...

The Clarks Factory Girls at War by May Ellis is out on 9th March! Pre-order your copy here 🧡 It was a man’s world in 1914 – women didn’t even have the vote! Yet, in the village of Street in Somerset, where Clarks Shoes is based, some women had a huge influence. Three...

Nell Gwyn – A Seventeenth Century Celebrity Eleanor Gwyn, known as Nell, was a celebrity back in the mid-17th century when the term hadn’t even been invented. One of the first professional actresses in England, she forged a path for others to follow and inspired a new...

My latest historical novel, At The Stroke of Midnight, is a spin on that wonderful 90s classic film – Groundhog Day. We’ve all seen it – Bill Murray’s character is forced to live the same day over and over, with thought-provoking and amusing consequences. There have...

When I decided to include coercive control in my new novel A Good Enough Mother – albeit only as part of the background – I knew I had to be careful, and respectful. I’m grateful to say I’ve never endured anything like this, and there’s nothing worse than a writer...