by Nia Beynon | Aug 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Although the village of Malvern End in my books is a fictional place, the Malverns themselves are very much real, as are many of the locations in the books. As a child I lived on a farm at the foot of the Malvern Hills which became Malvern Farm in my books. We only...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
In Sunny Days at the Sweet Shop of Second Chances, Holly Berry is going away to the south of France for her best friends’ joint hen and stag do. While there’s no doubt that she wants to be there to support them and have some well-earned relaxation time, there is one...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
The most famous Regency dog was Lord Byron’s beloved Newfoundland ‘Boatswain’ (see Clifton Tomson’s portrait, commissioned by the poet). Poetry and dogs were his constant passions. When Boatswain died of rabies he was buried at Newstead Abbey, Byron’s ancestral home,...
by jenna | Aug 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
A Magical Research Trip To Iceland Iceland has long been on my bucket list of places to visit, so it made complete sense to set one of my novels there, until I realised it would be hard to do it justice without visiting first…So, in November 2021 when COVID...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
I wasn’t the runt of the litter; just not as big as my brothers, only lazier. I didn’t fight as hard for the food, or the warmest place in the corner where we were born, so I didn’t get as big as them. One by one, my brothers disappeared I never knew where they went....
by Nia Beynon | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
September 1915 and the country is in the second year of a war. Hannah Merrill helps run her Aunt Violet’s bookshop in Covent Garden and one morning, rumours of an air raid the night before make her worry for the state of the bookshop. She finds the building unharmed,...
