by Nia Beynon | Feb 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
I write about the Saxon kingdom of Mercia a lot. I thought it had been entirely unintentional until now. But has it? I grew up in an area that would one have been in Mercia. From a seemingly young age, I knew Mercia had once been a kingdom in its own right. I knew I...
by Nia Beynon | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
You know how some people become addicted to looking at house sites, like RightMove, searching for their perfect house, even though they have no intention of moving? Well, I’m like that, with Interiors magazines. I buy them all, from the ones that show how an...
by Nia Beynon | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
When I was younger, I thought Valentine’s Day was a big commercial plot to trivialise love. I thought flowers and chocolates were cheesy and embarrassing gifts with no thought behind them. I was convinced it was better to show love every day in small gestures – making...
by Nia Beynon | Feb 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Things never turn out well when there’s more than one female living under the same roof, and in this book there are three. Dora, Her mother Mary and her grandmother Edith. The inspiration for this storyline was drawn from my personal experience of living with my...
by Nia Beynon | Feb 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Under One Roof was inspired by a tweet, someone had bought a house and found a hidden room. Twitter was fascinated. People were desperate to know what was inside. It made me want to research rooms that people have found and led me to imagine discovering one myself,...
by Nia Beynon | Feb 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
In my latest novel A Mother’s Secret, one of the main characters Helena O’Herlihy makes a shocking discovery about her husband and needs to take a little time out from her problems so she leaves Dublin and escapes to Ballycladdagh in the west of Ireland which is the...
