by Nia Beynon | Aug 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sturdy semi-detached and terraced houses were constructed in the period between the First and Second World Wars to fulfil the promise of the title – Homes for Heroes. The council house had arrived. Large estates sprang up on the outskirts of large cities – my own home...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
I love writing. I have a magnetic relationship with it – if there’s a pen or a laptop, I can’t leave it alone: I’m drawn to it. If I’m not writing, I’m thinking about writing. I have a lot of creative energy and if I didn’t have novels to write, I can’t imagine the...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
This month Boldwood Books celebrates its fourth birthday, and I am one of the authors fortunate enough to have been with them since day one. Over the past four years, we have published fourteen books together – and with many more to come, it’s nice to look back...
by jenna | Jul 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
Why Siena? Book number four in the Armstrong and Oscar mystery series Is set in the beautiful Tuscan city of Siena. For many years back in the Middle Ages, Siena was more important and wealthier than its neighbour Florence, until the arrival of the Black Death in...
by jenna | Jul 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
When I dreamed up St Bride’s School, the setting for my Gemma Lamb Cozy Mystery series, I was drawing not only on my experience of working at a girls’ boarding school, but also on my love of the various boarding school stories I read as a child. While my Gemma Lamb...
by jenna | Jul 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
In each episode in my cozy mystery series, I add new characters and settings to old favourites from previous books. In my latest novel, Artful Antics at St Bride’s, the school acquires a secretive new pupil, Frieda Ehrlich. Her school fees are sponsored by enigmatic...
