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Gillian Harvey is here to tell us all about writing location and the process of falling in love with where you live all over again. 💫 Happy endings – and then what? When I moved to France in 2009, I really felt that I’d hit the jackpot: I’d stepped away from the daily...

Hi everyone, Well it's that time again! The latest episode in The Glass Family isn't short on heart-pounding moments and, if my editor is right may just be the best yet. What a rollercoaster ride this series has been to create - full of characters who, although...

MY TOP 5 SCHOOL STORIES Although many readers describe the Gemma Lamb Cozy Mysteries as “Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers for grown-ups”, my favourite school stories are quite different from Blyton’s – although I venerate and enjoy hers too! First of all is Anthony...

Start reading This Is Us now: 🇬🇧 https://amzn.to/3bn1kM1 🇺🇸 https://amzn.to/3bcDliN When I first had the idea for this book there was a particular scene that kept playing over in my mind, that of our protagonist powering through the water. That became the prologue and...

Debbie Young is here to tell us all about the inspiration behind writing her Gemma Lamb cozy mysteries! #1 A beautiful stately home and a remarkable headmistress Like Gemma Lamb, I once worked at an English boarding school for girls, which was housed in a former...

Discover beautiful Kent through Jo Bartlett's wonderful Seabreeze Farm series on our #GreatBookishRoadTrip! 🌎 Read Jo's blog on her love of Kent ⬇️   There’s good a chance I might be biased, having been born in the county and spent most of my life here, but if you...

The Big Snow I have a confession: I really don’t like snow. Well, maybe that’s not quite true… I don’t mind looking at it through the window, while wrapped in a blanket with a mug of hot chocolate. Or driving on a clear road, with white trees either side as though I’m...