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Book number 3 in the Armstrong and Oscar cozy crime series is set in and around the incomparable city of Florence. If you look on the map, you'll see that Florence is quite near the top of the boot (if you think of Italy as looking like a boot) and it is bordered to...

History, folklore, and mythology have always fascinated me. The way they overlap at unexpected junctures revealing real events from which mythology and folklore takes its seed of inspiration. From the very first The Forgotten Palace featured the labyrinth. Ariadne and...

The Invisibility of Mature Women   Gail has her own rather dubious reasons for a severe case of ‘comparitinitus’ in The Assistant, but I think many of us notice the change, in more ways than one, not only physically but in the attitude of others as we mature.   Aging...

We #TravelBold today to the Kent coast today as Catherine Law, author tells us about her love for the area and how it inspired the writing of her brand new historical fiction novel #TheOfficersWife which is out today! 📚 https://mybook.to/TheOfficersWifesocial Welcome...

From a very young age, I have always been fascinated by castles and stately homes. The architecture, the decoration and design have always sparked an excitement within me. Even now I love to imagine what it would be like to roam around the halls of these historically...

A blog post by Jane Dunn, the bestselling author of The Marriage Season  Now only 0.99: https://mybook.to/marriageseasonsocial  Paris always had the edge for women’s fashion but for men, London tailors were renowned as the best in the world. In my novel, The Marriage...

Memories of a football mum One of the most challenging roles in life just might be the manager of a kid’s sports team. In the earlier years of my marriage, I spent many a Saturday standing on the touchline cheering on my husband’s football team. So, I thought I knew...

In Christmas 2021, I received a Christmas card from one of my lovely neighbours. Here’s a picture of the card. This was the first card that I received that year, and I placed it upon my writing bureau where every day it caught my eye. As I pondered who lived in the...

It’s publication day for my third psychological thriller, The Good Patient. This is a book that is very close to my heart as one of the characters, and indeed one of the storylines was inspired by a real person and real events from my own life. Fortunately, the...