The Joys of Gaming: A blog by Kate Hewitt

The Joys of Gaming: A blog by Kate Hewitt

When I started writing Playing for Keeps in Starr’s Fall, I was excited to explore the world of boardgame cafés because I’ve loved going to a few different ones with my children and discovering new games. But what really took me down memory lane was the character of...
The Shadow on the Bridge – A Murder Mystery

The Shadow on the Bridge – A Murder Mystery

The Shadow on the Bridge – A Murder Mystery   My book ideas evolve in various ways, but The Shadow on the Bridge was an amazing lightbulb moment.   One day whilst driving on the outskirts of Thetford (in Norfolk), I spotted a sign for the Nuns’ Bridges and I soon fell...
The Untold History of Covent Garden

The Untold History of Covent Garden

In the early 17th Century, the mixed orchard, meadow, pasture and arable land referred to as “the Convent Garden” was owned by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of St Peter, Westminster lying between modern-day St Martin’s Lane, Drury Lane, and...
The Original Queens of the Channel

The Original Queens of the Channel

More people have conquered Everest than have swum the twenty-one-mile English Channel. Only five men had managed it before American Olympic swimmer, Gertrude Ederle, made an attempt in August 1925. However, early into the swim, her coach, Jabez Wolffe, inexplicably...