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'Libraries are our cultural lifeblood. Without them authors wouldn't have been inspired - or in many cases been given shelter as children to lose themselves in a book; readers couldn't discover new worlds and new writers in a safe and free location. They are the...

Winter in wartime must have been especially hard. Rationing and shortages meant that there was very little of anything to bring cheer to a dull day and dark evenings. Isolated farms and villages might be cut off in the deep snow such as fell and lingered in the winter...

In the dual timeline story of The Daughter of the Fens, three women feature as central protagonists. Their lives are woven together by the mysterious location of the fenlands in Norfolk and by their indomitable spirit and strength of character. All three of them are...

I’ve been thinking about marriage a lot lately. I recently celebrated my thirtieth wedding anniversary. My eldest child and his amazing fiancée are getting married soon. And in my brand-new Elena Collins novel, out today 2nd October, two sets of characters get...

Emily Worth I hope most readers will relate to Emily Worth when they meet her. She is very much the girl next door, in her mid-thirties, living with her boyfriend, Max, and their adorable dog, Scout, but she has also had her fair share of tragedy to deal with. Her mum...

In Loki’s Deceit, we meet King Horik, who reigned as king of Denmark from AD813 to AD854. Horik was of the five sons of Gudfred, who was king of Denmark between AD804 and AD810 when he was assassinated by one of his housecarls. For unknown reasons, Hemming, a cousin...

The community of Heritage Cove, colloquially known as the Cove, is tight-knit and in previous books we’ve seen already how local businesses become as much about interaction with residents as profits. We have the bakery run by sisters Celeste and Jade where regulars...