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But when she stuns the neighbourhood by accepting the proposal of buffoonish clergyman Mr Collins, her fortunes change. Her best friend Lizzy Bennet is appalled by her decision, yet Charlotte knows this is the only way to provide for her…

I’m on twitter, facebook and instagram as florajowriter. I also have a website www.florajohnston.com. Do you have a work in progress just now? I’m delighted to be joined by local author Flora Johnston today. Flora’s debut novel, What You Call Free,…

After a long train journey she arrives home to her dad in Sheffield, ready to fold herself up in her duvet and remain on the sofa for the foreseeable. Her dad has other ideas. A phone call later, and Ally…

When Milo Sturgis is given a cold case he is not pleased and not afraid to show it, but soon calls in best friend, psychologist Alex Delaware.  At over 30 years old it’s more like a frozen solid case and…

It did. But not until I was forty. My novella was accepted. A year later, my first novel was accepted. I realized then that the decade of my thirties had to be an evolution. It had to be the metamorphosis.…

As for March, it may see the end of home-schooling for the us and the kids and a week off work for me to recuperate. I imagine I shall feel more invigorated than having spent a week in a spa.…

The debut novel by Australian author Melanie Dufty, called I am Lilith. It’s so beautifully written and I am only part way through it but have had to set aside and read something that is more of an easier read.…

It’s my stop on the blog tour for A Beautiful Spy by Rachel Hore. I love this author’s books and I’m looking forward to reading this one, but in the meantime I have an extract to share with you today.…

I was really fascinated to find out the difference chimneys made. Did you know that they enabled us to have more than one floor in a house? Previously all the smoke gathered, of course, at the top of a dwelling…