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I collect Victorian diaries and journals, written mainly by women who have arrived in Australia after leaving England, but also by women born in colonial Australia. These diaries are brilliant when I’m writing a story set in colonial Australia and they give me an...

Primary sources, I feel, are a writer's best friend, especially for a historical writer as I am. When researching, it is not always possible to visit your chosen setting, but if you can visit, make sure you don't simply go to the main attractions, like a castle, etc,...

Always enter the hosts house through the back door. No book club host likes their doorbell going off every five minutes and waking up babies/over excited children. The host will put on a smile at the door for you, but inside they are silently cursing the day you were...

My cats are a huge part of my life: they totally own the entire house, and wherever I go, they are there. When I’m on my laptop, they surround me, sleeping on my chair or on the laptop itself. They know the way to get my attention is to crawl over the keyboard and...

I decided to centre my latest series, Allegiance, in Birmingham for two reasons: one - many gangland books are set in London and, two - I wanted to encompass the vibrant and bustling city I grew up in and around. The first book of my series, Takeover, concentrates...

Samantha Reynold Beautiful, intelligent thirty-year-old Sam is a talented graphic designer. She is clever, driven and independent despite having the privileges her father’s position has afforded her. Now, stepping into her father’s shoes, Sam has to find ways of...

In my new novel Hunted, Detective Constable Bailey Morgan is being pursued by a ruthless hitman who’ll stop at nothing to kill her… unless she manages to catch him first! Hitmen, or contract killers, are a stalwart of crime cinema, and if reading Hunted whets your...

Meet Bailey Morgan… Who is Bailey Morgan? Detective Constable Bailey Morgan is a 30-year-old female undercover cop, protagonist of Jailbird, Villain, and most recently, Hunted. What’s she like as a person? One of the contradictions about Bailey is that despite the...