Imagine to yourself, my dear Letty, a spacious garden laid out in delightful walks, bounded with high hedges and trees, and paved with grave...

I recently visited Strawberry Hill, the summer villa of Horace Walpole (1717-1797), now restored to its original Gothic splendour at a cost ...

I had been meaning to visit Kew Palace for ages, ever since I saw a TV programme about its restoration, so a sunny June day was perfect to ...

One of the locations in the book I'm currently working on is the village of Perranarworthal. During the late C17th and early C18th it w...

Last weekend, as many of you will know, was the RNA conference at Caerleon, near Newport, in Wales. A fantastic time was had by all. Much la...

One Wicked Sin , book 2 in my Scandalous Women of the Ton Series, is out in the UK this month and I am very excited about it! I have been d...

Here is an excerpt from my book coming in August HMB are moving to simultaneous publications here and USA.  Because of the digital age thi...

One year, when I was about fourteen and at boarding school, I won two bronze medals. The first was for a London Academy for Music and Dramat...

I had a wonderful day at the start of June, giving a talk at the Jane Austen House Museum. The house is in the beautiful village of Chawton ...

I recently acquired a print and text from the fashion journal la Belle Assemblee for February 1817 with a charming print of "A group o...

Old cemeteries fascinate me. Apart from being havens for wildlife, they are a wonderful resource. The parish church for our village was fo...

I write books set in the Regency era, but my real love is the mid Georgian era, the 1750’s in particular. And of course one  of the big dif...

It seems a long time since I posted here- my last post coincided with the blogger black out last month. I was going to talk about my new boo...

This month sees the UK publication of Whisper of Scandal, the first in my Scandalous Women of the Ton series. This will be followed by One ...

The Bartered Bride is out now in USA. Coming soon there the Hanover Square trilogy and cming here soon, paperback in august is Bought For th...

May 16th, 2011, is the two hundredth anniversary of the battle of Albuera, one of the bloodiest of the Peninsular War. The small town of Alb...

The problem with moving house - well, two of them actually - is the realisation that you can't find anything and that everything is taki...

Last December my husband Mike was given indefinite loan of a field in which to grow fruit and vegetables. Though thigh-high in weeds, f...

It isn't my day, but I'm just dropping in to let you know that Amazon UK are offering the hardback of Henry Tilney's Diary at t...

No one seems to be blogging so I thought I would put another post on. Just received a huge parcel of copies of the USA A Country Miss in in ...