It took me a while but I finally got round to reading Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. Then I watched the film. Here are my thoughts on both.

When I get interested in something, I really get interested! My collections become an obsession, but the problem is they don’t last. So what’s my latest obsession? And how do I cut the cravings?

I ignored January 1st. My new year starts in March, and I’ve decided things are going to be different from now on!

I’ve always been a bookworm, but I really believe if I hadn’t been I would never have become a writer. A post to celebrate National Year of Reading.

I’m excited to say that it’s another publication day! This time I’m taking you to Kelsea Sands on the East Yorkshire coast. Well, they say home is where the heart is…

Looking back at the books I read over the last year and sharing the ones I loved the most.

The books I read during December 2025. What a wonderful selection to finish my year’s reading. Nostalgia, humour, Christmas, and good old-fashioned murder!

I was lucky enough to spend a week in Whitby recently. The town is certainly different outside the main tourist season - wet, windy and dark. But we loved it!

Here are all the books I read in November, including Golden Age crime classics, cosy fantasy, contemporary festive romances, a gothic short story classic, and the return of an old favourite.

November 2025 saw the first ever Whitby Lit Fest. And I was there! I attended four of the events, and it was fabulous!

The books I read and loved during October 2025, featuring Benedict Brown, Agatha Christie, Ruth Jones and James Corden, Abbie Hicks, Phil Rickman, and Christine Pullein-Thompson.

The books I read during September 2025, featuring Sarah Hope, Agatha Christie, Jessica Redland, Dan Brown, LM Montgomery, and Lucy Jane Wood.

Celebrating the publication of book 3 in my Ghosts of Rowan Vale series, Christmas Spirits at Honeywell House - romance, laughter, the Cotswolds, and lots of ghostly goings-on!

A mixed bag of books this month - everything from romance to contemporary fantasy to a children’s mystery. Plus, my first venture into gangland thrillers.

The books I read and loved in July 2025 - featuring Veronica Henry, Agatha Christie, Val Wood, Sue Townsend and K.T. Dady

Before Tuppenny Bridge there was The Other Half. A look behind the scenes at writing my family drama about the Kingstons and the Fletchers.

The books I read and enjoyed in June, featuring Agatha Christie, Winifred Holtby, Jan Crowther, Daisy James and Jessie Cahalin.

A road trip, a festival, and yet another detour!

Today is publication day for the second in my Ghosts of Rowan Vale series, set in a living history village in the beautiful Cotswolds.

On Father’s Day I thought I’d take a look back at the dads I’ve featured in my books. They’re very different people, but they have one thing in common - they love their children! (Although they sometimes have a funny way of showing it…)