Historical Belles and Beaus

Historical novels are so deeply researched they sometimes seem like non-fiction in disguise. And some readers consider that romance can kill...

I really enjoy looking at historical fashion, especially from the Victorian and Edwardian eras which are the periods I set a lot of my novel...

Charlotte McBain, daughter of a Scottish laird, spent a lonely, neglected childhood growing up in a fine castle in Kirkcudbrightshire and h...

I'm highlighting another one of my books, which I really enjoyed writing. Catrina's Return is a story of a young woman who is bra...

Here's the blurb and a new excerpt from my re-issued full length medieval historical romance novel, "A Knight's Vow." Ju...

Primary sources, I feel, are a writer's best friend, especially for a historical writer.    I collected Victorian diaries and journa...

The Workhouse   was built   for the poor and needy, and   intended to be so harsh and hostile that only the truly destitute would seek ...

We first had a village holiday home in Spain but in the late nineties bought an olive grove in a village in the mountains and built a house ...

In the later eighteenth century, the status-quo was ripped apart by the poor and middle class in France who demanded equal rights with the...

Isabelle's Choice is set in West Yorkshire, in the area around Halifax, Hebden bridge and Heptonstall. This story was a favourite of min...

Apart from the historical novels I have set in Australia, the rest of my historical stories are set in various areas around Yorkshire, Engla...

  BUY LINKS A dark cloud hovers over Wolfram, the ancient abbey Laura calls her new home. Can she trust the mysterious man she marr...