I sat for a while at the cross at Finnoe Where young lovers would meet when the flowers were in bloom Heard the men coming home from the fair at …
Category: Fiction
I had heard, from many people, that the second book is the hardest one you’ll ever have to write. “I don’t remember mine at all,” says one author friend. “Except …
I find it absolutely thrilling to pick up a book that’s full of twists and turns even the most experienced of readers will find hard to predict. It takes true …
To all of Dubray’s wonderful customers, This is a strange letter to be writing – not because I’m not glad to be doing it, but because I never thought I’d …
Ideas come from many places, but a story about waylaid Girl Guide cookies is definitely one of my most unusual sources of inspiration. The story – related in a US …
Nothing But Blue Sky is set in a tiny seaside village in Catalonia, where my husband and I have holidayed for over twenty years. I’ve changed the name of the …
I don’t think I have ever been so excited about a book as I am about The Russian Affair. It is the story of Vitaly and Yuliya Stepanov, the husband-and-wife …
The Pull of the Stars began over sixteen years ago when I was in premature labour with our first child who, as a playful five-year-old, would be my model for …
Songs are mysterious companions. I remember turning the dial of my mother’s transistor radio one summer’s evening in the late Seventies and finding Across the Universe by The Beatles. It …
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