If you like Martina Cole, Kimberley Chambers and Jessie Keane – you’ll love Heather Burnside! Successful businesswoman Laura once called herself Crystal and worked the streets of Manchester. But when her business is attacked and the police have no leads, it’s clear there’s someone out […]

Paris, 1878. Ballet dancer Marie van Goethem is chosen by the unknown artist Edgar Degas to model for his new sculpture: Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen Years. But Marie is much more than she seems. By day she’s a ‘little rat’ of the opera, contorting her […]

The harrowing story of the Zaandam cruise ship, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway – Covid-19 – days before the world shut down in March 2020. A story of human kindness, peril and bravery. In early 2020, the world was on edge. […]

My thanks to Anne and Tracy for the Random Things Tours invitation for The Reunion, published in paperback today. I’m delighted to welcome Polly Phillips to the blog for a Q&A. Q&A with Polly Phillips It’s a pleasure to welcome you to the blog Polly. […]

Paris 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy. In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spills through the door of a little restaurant, crowded with German soldiers. The owner Marianne moves on […]