We have the wonderful authors here and many more, so what a shame there's so little romance, especially historical romance, on the shelv...

Regency Letters Four 20th February. From Captain Robert Jenson to his sister Lady Horatia Melton Dearest One I write to tell you that within...

Last year, at an auction, I picked up a small watercolour seascape by W H Pyne. It is a calm and unimposing picture of two men walking acros...

My 1831 copy of this must-have book for the fashionable lady is conveniently pocket-sized and comprises 244 pages of short stories, poems, a...

What makes a Regency novel? Is it the year in which it is set, or is it the style of the book? I've never really thought about this, but...

Last month I treated myself to this delicious 18thc embroidered waistcoat in a North Norfolk auction. I wanted it for itself and I had no ...

Yesterday I attended the RNA luncheon. It was in celebration of fifty years of the romantic fiction association and was one of the best atte...

Jo Beverley here. There's n ot much to Georgian Blackpool, I'm afraid. The roots of the town are very much Victorian sea-side resort...

I fell in love with the Georgian era when I was nine and saw an engraving of a coffee house. Love at first sight. The coffee houses were ...

‘Darcy, what do you think of my new home?’ Mr Bingley enquired anxiously as he ushered his guests into the entrance hall where the staff wer...

I am now at the point in my current manuscript where me hero and heroine have been marooned alone together, trapped in a cellar as a result...

You’re not supposed to have favourites as a writer, but I have to admit I’m partial to my just-released novel, The Darcy Cousins . Perhaps i...

Regency Letters Three To Captain Robert Jenson, from his sister Lady Horatia Melton. 22nd February 1816 My very dear Robert It is with the ...

How to describe the Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London? Aladdin’s cave? A Time Travel experience? A Gothic extravaganza...

Little did I think, when I started writing Henry Tilney's Diary, that other projects would overtake me and I would end up writing Mr Dar...

On May 2nd 1816 Princess Charlotte, the only child of the Prince Regent and second in line to the throne, married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cob...

Bread: a staple of our diet that comes in so many shapes, sizes and flavours that we are spoiled for choice. But in the C18th the poor had n...

Yesterday, as we all know, was Valentine's Day. It was also the publication date of the RNA's 50th Anniversary Anthology of short st...

  When I was little, my parents visited a different place every weekend. Usually a great country house, occasionally a historic...

The shortlist for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Love Story of the Year has been announced and I’m thrilled that my Ravenhurst novel Th...