Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2010
As a fan of Georgette Heyer since my teens, yours truly was delighted to be asked to take part in a month-long celebration of her work over at Laurel Ann’s fantastic blog, Austenprose.com. The event coincides with Heyer’s birthday on 16th August and will feature thirty-four book reviews of her romance novels, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2009
I needed a catchy title for this blog post and a homage to V for Vendetta (great film!) fitted the bill perfectly. Or maybe I should have coined, in true V fashion, ‘Voila! Voluptuous voice to vocalise Venetia!’
Enough of the alliteration for the moment, let’s get down to the news – the fabulous news -that [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2009
Back in March, I blogged about a new Naxos CD audiobook of one of my favourite Georgette Heyer novels, Sylvester, read by the talented, chocolate-voiced Richard Armitage. I received my copy a few weeks ago and am delighted to say it’s everything I hoped it would be. Richard did a wonderful job with a novel [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
Who on earth is Tom Plunkett, I hear you ask ;0)
Tom was, in fact, a real-life dashing figure from the Regency period. When Juliet, Georgia and I visited Winchester and Chawton recently, one of the points on our whistle stop tour was Winchester Cathedral. There was one item in that beautiful building I was [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 14th, 2009
I had a real ‘woohoo’ moment on Thursday.
Browsing on Amazon for information on Georgette Heyer audio books, I discovered by chance that there is new CD audiobook of Sylvester being released on 1st July. Fabulous news for a Heyer fan like me, but there was even better to come….the reader on this edition is Richard [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2008
My debut novel, The Paradise Will, has already received some great reviews, full details of which can be found on my web-site. However, I was thrilled to read Stephanic Hochadel’s comments in the August 2008 edition of the prestigious Historical Novels Review magazine. I won’t repeat the whole review here as it contains mild spoilers, but here’s [...]
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