Read Around the Rainbow: Setting Books where you Live

24 Jun 202224 Jun 2022

I chose the topic for this month’s webring blogpost, but oddly I tend not to set books in the place I currently live. I’m not sure why that is, but…

Two visit Frogmorton Towers

3 Jun 20223 Jun 2022

This is a tease, really, because Frogmorton Towers is the fictional setting for my book December Roses so we couldn't possibly have visited it. But we did the next best…

May newsletter imminent!

26 May 2022

My new monthly newsletter is due out later today. This month, as well as the usual update on my work-in-progress, it features a free story and lots of stuff about…

Read around the Rainbow: Weird Research

29 Apr 202229 Apr 2022

When this topic was first suggested, I wasn’t sure I could write about it. Most of my books are contemporary, with backdrops that I’m reasonably familiar with (archaeology, old buildings)…

Frogs, dinosaurs and December Roses

24 Aug 2021

The Biddulph Grange frog, courtesy of Tripadvisor Yesterday I was doing some research for an Instagram post about Biddulph Grange gardens, which I used as the main inspiration for the…

Two don’t go to a garden

18 Aug 202118 Aug 2021

Biddulph Grange Chinese garden, courtesy of wheretogowithkids.co.uk I mentioned in my last post that we'd taken a rain-check on our plans to travel this week. The upside to that is…

December Roses available now!

3 Dec 2020

It's December, and the snow is falling outside, so what better time to announce my new book December Roses? A mysterious garden... an enigmatic man... but are either of them…