Ten years ago, I wrote this post with the help of several authors, notably the late, great, Jo Beverley, whose sense of humour was pretty wi...

http://amzn.to/2hxL8GT (UK) http://amzn.to/2imsIJ9  (US) I am starting 2017 with a re-edited recycled book. Search For A Duke was once p...

My new timeslip, The Phantom Tree, was published last week and it’s so exciting to see it in the shops! This time I’m travelling between ...

There is a school of thought which sees The Quiet Gentleman as a sort of unsatisfactory Sense and Sensibility , with Marianne Bolderwoo...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you all have a wonderful 2017, full of laughter and happiness and lots of lovely reading!  I am still in the ho...

One of the wonderful things about Jane Austen's novels is that they give us a realistic portrait of family life in the Regency period. T...

Specifically England, because the process was different in Scotland. Recently I’ve been researching trials for crimes in the mid eigh...

It started with a picture, a small portrait of a lady in Tudor dress that I saw on the wall of my uncle’s house in Wiltshire. It fascinat...

The Savoy Chapel: A John of Gaunt whisper Some years ago, at a Romantic Novelists’ Association conference, I heard Professor Jenny Hart...

It's fascinating how different ways of celebrating travel around the world. In the long Regency period,  German Christmas traditions beg...