The Next Big Thing

Yes, that’s a photo of me on a bucking bronco, clad in leather boots, lipstick safely in a bag slung over the saddle horn. At my side, sadly just out of the range of the camera, there is a wrangler-rugged, handsome, tanned from a day on the range, deep blue...

Introducing…Evie Undercover

Meet Evie Shaw, newest reporter on the gossip magazine Pure Dirt. Evie is the star of …   Libel lawyer, Tom Hadleigh, must urgently visit the 14th century house he recently brought in Umbria, Italy. Alas, Tom has a little problem: he can’t speak a...

Talking of cigarettes, this may interest you …

When reading a scene from ‘A Bargain Struck’ (to come out in Sept 2013) to my Friend in the North, I said that the character, Niall, took a packet of cigarettes from the pocket of his jeans.  I heard her exclaim at the other end of the phone, and I...

Welcome to HNSConf12

Who needs words when there are pictures? The Historical Novel Society Conference 2012 was BRILLIANT, and in my blog for this week, I’m going to take you through some of the highlights of the conference, which was held at The University of Westminster from 28th...