by Nia Beynon | Sep 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
The nightly bombing of London, which was later to become known as the Blitz, began on 7th September 1940. By the end of the following week almost all London theatres were closed. Many of the performers were prepared for the shows to go on but playing to small houses...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Della Galton’s A New Arrival at Duck Pond Cottage is out now! Click here to start reading! I have loved dogs for as long as I can remember. Many years ago I volunteered as a weekend dog walker at an animal sanctuary near Salisbury. Myself, my husband and stepson...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Anita Davison’s new novel Murder at Midwinter Manor is a historical mystery set over Christmas during the Great War and is out now! Click here to read it! As a third-generation Londoner, writing the Miss Merrill and Aunt Violet mysteries, I often wondered what...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Have you heard of Suffrajitsu? Did you know many of the suffragettes learned martial arts to protect themselves? In the early 1900’s women were fighting for women’s suffrage, the right to vote. The movement was particularly active in the UK and spread to the US and...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
If you love isolated location thrillers, you must read Amanda Brittany’s Now You Are Mine, out now! Click here to get your copy! And then there were none by Agatha Christie Published in 1939, this has to be all-time favourite isolated location thriller. Ten...
by Claire | Aug 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Jane Dunn’s brand new glittering Regency Romance A Lady’s Fortune is out now! There has been a debate about whether young women at the beginning of the 19th century actually swum for pleasure. There was enough evidence that they’d splash about a bit at seaside...
