This month marks the release of my first timeslip novel. If I’d known they were such fun to write, I’d have written one a long time ago! ...

I'm delighted to tell you that the third book in my bestselling series about the Duke of Silchester, "The Duke's Alliance"...

General Tilney is surely one of the most unpleasant characters Jane Austen ever created. He’s greedy, hypocritical and a bully. Yet is it...

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...