by Claire | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Readers Families are fascinating to me – as a mum and grandma, but also as an author. Siblings don’t automatically get along well together; personality clashes happen! And in blended families, children who have started life with a different parent might find it...
by Claire | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Vienna is incredibly magical at Christmas time… every year during November the squares in the city are transformed to charming markets selling crafts, clothing, beautiful ornaments, culinary delights and warming drinks including Glühwein (German mulled wine). If you...
by Claire | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Grab your copy of the brand-new, utterly thrilling and totally epic historical adventure, Valour! My new novel, Valour, takes place in southern Hungary of the 1220s, and details a borderland struggle between the religious order that would become the Teutonic Knights...
by Claire | Aug 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Marriage Season and Pride and Prejudice Sybella & Lucie Lovatt are two country sisters like Jane and Elizabeth Bennett, who are introduced to the Beau Monde and without losing their unspoiled natures and individual spirit find enduring love (and a fine country...
by Claire | Jul 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Meet Bobbin the Robin Bobbin the robin is a favourite character of mine in Will You Stay Another Day? Some fun facts about robins? Their breast is actually orange, but even though oranges arrived in the UK in the 1300s, that word wasn’t used to describe a colour until...
by Niamh Wallace | Jul 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Nelly Brooks, in The Emerald Shawl, is a fictional, British, woman reporter, but every aspect of her story was inspired by the American Nellie Bly (1864 – 1922), probably the world’s first female undercover journalist. It was Nellie Bly (real name, Elizabeth Jane...
