The roaring 1920s in Heartbreak at Harpers!

A blog post by bestselling author Rosie Clarke! The twenties changed the world, moving standards, and opening up new horizons: Al Capone, also known as Scarface was only one of many notable people of the era.  Thought to be guilty of murder amongst other crimes, he...
Beyond the legend of King Arthur | Peter Gibbons

Beyond the legend of King Arthur | Peter Gibbons

Arthurian legends have fascinated us for centuries, beginning in medieval literature, and adapting to their current form in modern-day novels, films and art. My latest novel, Excalibur, is a tale of Arthur which takes place in a crumbling Britain. A country under a...
Five things you might not know about Dalmatians

Five things you might not know about Dalmatians

Phoebe Dashwood, the New Forest vet in my Puddleduck Farm series, has a Dalmatian called Roxie, who features quite a lot in Happy Ever After At Puddleduck Farm. She’s also in the previous book in the series, Living The Dream at Puddleduck Farm. So I thought it was...
Squirrels in One of a Kind by Jane Lovering

Squirrels in One of a Kind by Jane Lovering

Red versus Grey Enid Blyton, who comprised a good deal of my reading material, wrote about red squirrels, which led me to believe that all squirrels were red. Many of my books as a child were written in similar times, before the grey squirrel outcompeted and brought...