Why the Snowy Mountains Scheme? In Keepers, Teddy’s 21st birthday coincides with the beginning of construction of the vast engineering…
Why Post WW2 migrant hostels? Post WW2 migrant hostels – or one any way – play an important part in…
Freddie’s Night Out was written for an autumn event at Jolter’s cider pub in the Forest of Dean, where cider…
Sabrina’s Rising is inspired by the great flood which swept up the Severn Sea (now the Bristol Channel) on the…
Five Days – Five Nights is a piece of flash fiction inspired by the 1904 Union Pit disaster in the…
Orchard Kingdom is based on an early Australian childhood experience. The story won first prize in the inaugural Ottery St…
This scene about St George’s Vestry VAD unit appeared in a draft of The Gift of Belonging (Book 3 in…
The Welcome is a scene which appeared in a draft of The Gift of Belonging (Book 3 in The Wise…
Readers of The Herbalist’s Daughters (the standalone book 2 in The Wise Women series), might remember that one of the…
In the course of research for my new book, the third in the Wise Women series, I discovered one of…