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My Top 5 School Stories by Debbie Young
MY TOP 5 SCHOOL STORIES Although many readers describe the Gemma Lamb Cozy Mysteries as “Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers for grown-ups”, my favourite school stories are quite different from Blyton’s – although I venerate and enjoy hers too! First of all is Anthony...
The inspiration behind This Is Us by Helen McGinn ✨
Start reading This Is Us now: 🇬🇧 https://amzn.to/3bn1kM1 🇺🇸 https://amzn.to/3bcDliN When I first had the idea for this book there was a particular scene that kept playing over in my mind, that of our protagonist powering through the water. That became the prologue and...
My inspiration for writing the Gemma Lamb cozy mysteries by Debbie Young
Debbie Young is here to tell us all about the inspiration behind writing her Gemma Lamb cozy mysteries! #1 A beautiful stately home and a remarkable headmistress Like Gemma Lamb, I once worked at an English boarding school for girls, which was housed in a former...
Travel Bold to Kent!
Discover beautiful Kent through Jo Bartlett's wonderful Seabreeze Farm series on our #GreatBookishRoadTrip! 🌎 Read Jo's blog on her love of Kent ⬇️ There’s good a chance I might be biased, having been born in the county and spent most of my life here, but if you...
My Own Christmas Romance by Lisa Hobman
In readiness for Together Under a Snowy Skye I was thinking about my own experience of romance at Christmas and I thought I would share with you how I met the love of my life. I met my now husband Rich in a pub on a cold January evening in 1992. Not exactly the most...
The Big Snow by Beth Moran
The Big Snow I have a confession: I really don’t like snow. Well, maybe that’s not quite true… I don’t mind looking at it through the window, while wrapped in a blanket with a mug of hot chocolate. Or driving on a clear road, with white trees either side as though I’m...
The Inspiration behind One Hot Summer
One summer night in June 2021, just as I had gone to bed around eleven o’clock, my phone pealed out its Harry Potter tune and I knew it was one of my daughters – nobody else would ring at that time! This phone call coincided with three or four very loud bangs that had...
Visit Sheffield with Anita Waller and One Hot Summer!
Visit Sheffield with Anita Waller and #OneHotSummer! Read Anita's blog for our #GreatBookishRoadTrip 📚 One Hot Summer is set in an area in the south east of Sheffield; a beautiful area that gives an instant impression of green. In the fifties Sheffield embarked on a...
Visit Manchester
Take a trip to Manchester on our #GreatBookishRoadTrip with bestselling author Samantha Tonge ✨ Read Samantha's blog post on the influence of the city on her brand new novel Lost Luggage 📚 Like Under One Roof, my first novel with Boldwood Books, Lost luggage is set...
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