Something New for Something Wicked
Want to hear me reading the opening of ‘Something Wicked’? You’ve come to the right place.
Something Wicked is stirring in Brompton Cemetery
This Saturday (3 December) I'll be at the Friends of Brompton Cemetery Christmas Fair to sell copies of Something Wicked. It makes perfect sense because Brompton Cemetery is at the heart of the story. Something Wicked is a police procedural with a difference: one of...
‘Cawnpore’ on offer for Historical Writers’ Day
This weekend is Historical Writers’ Day. (Yes, I know that there are two days in a weekend, but we are historical writers, not mathematicians.) The event is being run through Twitter and you can follow what is going on using the hashtag #HistoricalWritersDay22. I'm...
‘Sisters at the Edge of the World’: Ailish Sinclair
It's easy to be rude about genre fiction. People say that they don't want books to be neatly classified. But genre fiction is easy to read. We know where we are. It's easy to review. We can (mostly) recognise the core elements of a “good” book of historical fiction or...
Keeping up to snuff
I like to blog about interesting places I've been, especially if they have a historical connection. So Monday's day out can't pass without a mention. My son’s brigade was responsible for providing a squadron to mount the guard at Buckingham Palace and he went along to...
Autumn trees
I’m joining in the game of posting photos of autumn trees.
Tango
Why tango is such fun I’ve just spent three weeks dancing in Buenos Aires.
Halloween and a free book
This week marks the culmination of the spooky season with Halloween on Monday. When I was a child Halloween was not a big deal but nowadays, of course, it is huge. Every year, I read people complaining that it's an American import although, of course, it isn’t. All...
Still October. Still spooky. Ben Aaronovitch’s ‘Rivers of London’
It’s still October and I want to keep blogging about books with a spooky supernatural theme, but I’ve only written three. This week, then, I’d like to turn to another brilliant writer of Urban Fantasy – Ben Aaronovitch. A friend asked me if I had read Ben...
More spookiness for October
I had the idea for Something Wicked years ago wandering around the cemeteries of Buenos Aires. It was intended as a single short book but I had people asking me to write another about the vampire detective, Chief Inspector Pole, and his human colleague, Chief...