Jane Austen and Brothers at Sea Jane Austen’s life and work often sprang into my mind while I was writing Children at Sea. I imagined
Our final blog tour of 2020 has come to an end! We’ve loved seeing what bloggers thought of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia by Samantha Morris.
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Eleanor of Provence and the Founding of Parliament There is no cornerstone or date when parliament was founded. It arose in early thirteenth-century England because
Murder Most Foul The Dastardly Murder of Alfonso d’Aragona Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, married her second husband in 1498 following a rather
The Birth of Extremism Creating Hitler’s Germany This book was one I wrote specifically to try and understand what led Germany to be ultimately responsible
In 1947 Noël Denholm-Young published a biography of Richard of Cornwall that is generally considered a classic, but one in need of an update. For
Children at Sea: Lives Shaped by the Waves by Vyvyen Brendon On the Road in Fact and Fiction
We recently took Life in Miniature on tour! We had so much fun finding out what bloggers and reviewers thought of this new release. We
Tony Cartwright’s new book was published during lockdown