by Claire | Dec 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Girl in a Red Shirt by Owen Mullen Christmas Eve O’Hare International Airport Chicago 1989 Across the barren runway, in the glare of a spotlight, the hydraulic arm of a de-icer truck sprayed clouds of fluid from wingtip to wing root on a Finnair jet scheduled to be...
by Nia Beynon | Dec 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
On the outside, the festive season is brandy by the log fire, presents under the tree and good times with loved ones. It’s the joy of nostalgia as well as making new memories. On the inside, it’s a day filled mostly with regret. If prison is breaking you, Christmas...
by Claire | Dec 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
In my next novel, The Golden Girls’ Getaway, I focus on three women’s lives. One character is Vivienne, an actor in her early seventies. She is a strong, feisty and glamorous person who refuses to let age define her. However, professionally she plays an ageing...
by Claire | Nov 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Nothing is more heartbreaking than holding a newborn baby in your arms and it doesn’t cry. The anguish, holding your breath while you wait for that first sign of life, the tears that fall upon your cheeks as you pray for that lovely, beautiful cry. Then… a burst from...
by Nia Beynon | Nov 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
How long did it take you to come up with the idea for the latest DI Barton storyline and where did the inspiration come from? It’s quite tricky to think of new ideas because there are about 400,000 books a year published. I wanted to do something different, so I used...
by Nia Beynon | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
‘Keep young and beautiful it’s your duty to be beautiful, Keep young and beautiful if you want to be loved…’ The lines of that old song had to have been written by a man. The tobacco girls liked to look their best but with the advent of war cosmetics, clothes...
