Stop Press for a new book for August 2019
STOP PRESS To be published on 22nd August 2019 in hardback: A Tapestry of Treason The dramatic but troubled story of Constance of York, Lady Despenser, and her Yorkist family….
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Queen of the North Historical Novel Review.
So pleased to read this review of Queen of the North in the Historical Novel Society Review August 2018. Even better that it figures on the back cover in such good…
Queen of the North Celebratory Giveaway
Celebration time. This Giveaway is now closed. Thank you to all who visited the page and took part. and particularly many thanks for all the kind words and best wishes….
Twelve Facts you should know about Elizabeth Mortimer, Lady Percy
(And much that we do not know) Elizabeth was born in 1371 in one of the Mortimer castles in the Welsh Marches, probably in Usk where Roger her eldest brother…
Competition Time
Exciting News from my publishers HQ. With less than a week to go before the publication of Queen of the North in hardback on 31st of May 2018, I have…
The Shadow Queen: Celebratory Giveaway
This Giveaway is now closed. Thank you to all who left a comment to celebrate the publication of The Shadow Queen. For All My Readers To mark the publication of…
Fantastic New Covers
Fantastic New Covers For All My Back-List My publishers have decided to co-ordinate the covers of my back-list of medieval historical novels to match the new one for The Shadow…
Some thoughts: was Joan, Fair Maid of Kent, a beautiful woman?
I frequently receive comments on my posts and blogs that Joan of Kent must indeed have been an outstandingly beautiful woman. Do not the images of her, that can be…
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Joan of Kent: not content with one scandalous marriage …
The marriage of Joan of Kent to Edward, Prince of Wales, heir to the English throne proved to be in some ways quite as scandalous as her previous marital adventures…
Anne O’Brien in The Times Review
As part of the excitement for the publication of The Shadow Queen, Anne was featured in a wonderful piece in The Times where she chooses her Six Best Queens. What…
Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent; a Woman of much Charm and Ambition.
All the medieval women I have written about in the past have been chosen by me because of the characters with whom they interacted and the story they had to…
Epitaph of Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales
Edward’s title, the Black Prince, frequently used in history, was not found in evidence until the Tudor period, and so it would be wrong to use it to assess either…
