“The best thing” you’ll read this evening

  Click the below for ABSOLUTELY FREE access to the prologue and first chapter of THE BEST THING I NEVER HAD prior to its release on Thursday 5 December.   For access to sneak peaks of other amazing Harper Impulse fiction visit the fabulous Chick Lit Reviews and News. Enjoy!        

A Hanoverian menage-a-trois

This is the beautiful Sarah Fairbrother, servant’s daughter turned ballet dancer turned prince’s wife. The delicate, talented Sarah was considered one of the beauties of her generation and already had two illegitimate children by two different men by the time she caught the eye of Prince George, the Duke of Cambridge. A grandson of George […]

A-Z Book Survey

Author You’ve Read The Most Books Of: Elizabeth Chadwick  And it’s down to a combination of me absolutely loving every book she’s ever written and her having a prodigious output – she takes up an entire shelf on my bookcase. Best Sequel Ever: I preferred Catching Fire to both The Hunger Games and Mockingjay; I’m really excited to […]

What If..? (#04: Lady Jane Grey had kept the throne)

Part of a new series on revisionist history, speculating on tiny changes in British history that could cause a ‘butterfly effect’. In June 1553, the boy-king Edward lay dying. Unable to legitimise his Protestant half-sister Elizabeth without doing the same to his Catholic one, Mary, Edward subverted the will of his late father, Henry VIII, […]

Recap: October 2013

I am toe-deep in my second contemporary romance for HarperImpulse – my Indefinite Leave to Remain – and will be for the foreseeable future! I can’t help but sneak away to do a blog post now and then though..! A small selection this month, but I’m sure there’s something interesting you might have missed! A very […]