Gwenna The Welsh Confectioner has a special place in my heart for two reasons. The first, because I am Welsh born and grew up with stories about my great-great-grandmother the sugar boiler, and secondly because the story is dedicated…
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NEW Meet the Author Book Launch events just for you
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been invited to present at several Meet the Author Book launch events in the upcoming weeks. You are welcome to come along and say hello and ask questions. Thursday 7 July at Whangamata…
Apart from having an addiction to travelling, I long ago discovered genealogy was in my bones, or should that be blood? Whichever way you describe it, I can spend hours online looking for the who’s who of family, and…
Followers of this blog will already know that my other half and I do a lot of travelling. We hitch up our caravan and take the slow and easy-path for weeks on end to discover this beautiful country. During…
It’s not too late to buy mum a book for Mother’s Day. Readers of my blogs and newsletters will know I have a new book release on that day – Elinor, Book 2 in The Art of Secrets series…
In my latest novel, Elinor, the family live in rural Manawatū and Pahīatua in the years between the two world wars. There is a passage about the travails of crossing the steep bush-clad hills with a horse and wagon,…
Part Two of my cruisy life comes to you from… my bedroom. Struck down by Covid, I’ve finally found the strength to tap a few keys, but I’d prefer to look back to when we were raring to go…
Every summer and often in between, we, as in OH and I, pack up our caravan and head to a different area of New Zealand to investigate the nooks and crannies we don’t know about. Every summer, we say…
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A blind date – with a book, and a little something about me.
I’m always grateful for the opportunity to discuss my work, and hopefully give readers a little insight into the way the what and why of every story. My thanks to “A Novel Idea,” for hosting my latest interview on…
I’ve spent quite some time running down rabbit holes recently looking for people and their stories, discovering what life was like in the 1920s here in New Zealand, and connecting a few dots. What struck me most while doing…