by Nia Beynon | Apr 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Here’s a guide to the wonderful local Breton food and drink you’ll discover in A French Fling for the Golden Gals. Galettes & Crêpes: Savoury buckwheat pancakes (galettes) are often filled with cheese, egg, and ham (galette complète) or sausage (saucisse) followed...
by Claire | Apr 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
For all of you who love a World War Two saga, here is a little insight into the author’s experiences of writing in this genre. I find it ironic that before I began writing the Great Western Railway Girls saga series, I thought I knew everything about my own family’s...
by Nia Beynon | Apr 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Yorkshire 1361. Sir Ralph de Mandeville has been appointed one of the first justices of the peace by King Edward iii and he travels bringing law to the villages and hamlets in the wapentakes of Yorkshire. Wapentakes were the administrative divisions of Yorkshire...
by Niamh Wallace | Apr 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
AND BREATHE… For the last couple of years, we’ve been living in Storrington, a large West Sussex village at the foot of the South Downs. We are transient, here to sell my late Dad’s house – and it’s a lovely village, with a real sense of heart, but it’s impossible not...
by Nia Beynon | Mar 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
Young Icel is an orphan in the Eagle of Mercia Chronicles, his mother dying when he was born. He knows very little about her, but there are a number of mother-figures in his life. Lady Cynehildis one of them, and she’s the one to spill the beans about the identity of...
by Nia Beynon | Mar 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Every Saxon-era series needs a book where the primary location is a ship and Storm of Mercia sees Icel and some of his allies on board a Viking ship. And it’s not willingly done. ‘If these bastards think they’ve found strong men to row their ship for them, they might...
