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The Snowy Mountains Scheme

July 4, 2026 cheryl Leave a comment

Why the Snowy Mountains Scheme? In Keepers, Teddy’s 21st birthday coincides with the beginning of construction of the vast engineering…

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Posted in: Australian history and growing up there, The inspiration behind the books Filed under: australia 1950s, Cabramurra, construction workers, Cooma, european immigration to Australia, historical fiction, Jindabyne

Sabrina’s Rising

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Sabrina’s Rising is inspired by the great flood which swept up the Severn Sea (now the Bristol Channel) on the…

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Posted in: Forest of Dean and River Severn history, folklore and myth, The inspiration behind the books Filed under: historical fiction, short stories, The Great Flood of 1607

The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams

July 2, 2026 cheryl Leave a comment

The Dictionary of Lost Words is set within the history of the long gestation of the Oxford English Dictionary from…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: books, historical fiction, OED, Oxford, women's fiction, world war one

The Gift of Belonging is now out

May 1, 2026 cheryl

The Gift of Belonging is now out, and the kindle version available for sale. The paperback will be available as…

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Posted in: For the readers among us, News Filed under: book release, Fantasy, historical fiction, romance, women's fiction

In Memoriam Alice Winn

April 29, 2026 cheryl

I picked up In Memoriam to give me a soldier’s view of life in the trenches of WW1 to complement…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: historical fiction, romance, world war one

St George’s Vestry VAD

April 8, 2026 cheryl

This scene about St George’s Vestry VAD unit appeared in a draft of The Gift of Belonging (Book 3 in…

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Posted in: Women’s lives through war and change Filed under: historical fiction, romance, The Gift of Belonging, VADS, Voluntary Auxiliary Defence, women's fiction, world war one

Perotine Dreena Collins

April 4, 2026 cheryl

I will put my hand up now and say that Dreena Collins is a friend whom I met several years…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: historical fiction, women's fiction

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 

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Reading on my kindle, when the % read failed to work, this seemed like a very long book, and at…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: dual timeline, historical fiction, romance, women's fiction

The Women Kristen Hannah

March 23, 2026 cheryl

The Women Kristen Hannah is only the second book I’ve read by this author. The other was Four Winds, which…

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Posted in: Book reviews, For the readers among us Filed under: book review, historical fiction, history, vietnam, women's fiction

Book 3 in The Wise Women series – special pre-order price

March 22, 2026 cheryl

Book 3 in The Wise Women series will be released on 1 May 2026. The Gift of Belonging is now…

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Posted in: For the readers among us, News Filed under: 20th century, 20th century romance, Fantasy, Great War, historical fiction, romance, war romance fiction, women's fiction, world war one, WW1

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