Seasonal Giveaway!
A Seasonal Giveaway! Two signed copies of A Tapestry of Treason 1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her…
Category: Plantagenets
A Tapestry of Treason is Published! Celebratory Giveaway!
This Giveaway is now closed. Thank you to all who took part. Hurrah! Publication Day for A Tapestry of Treason: 22nd August To Celebrate: A Giveaway. 2 Signed Hardback…
Why was I inspired to write about Elizabeth Mortimer?
Queen of the North Sumptuous and Evocative Historical Fiction from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author Queen of the North tells the passionate but ultimately tragic tale of Elizabeth Mortimer, daughter…
Family Connections: Percy, Mortimer, – and Tudor?
Queen of the North released in paperback on 18th April 2019 The two main protagonists in my novel Queen of the North are Sir Henry Percy and Elizabeth Mortimer. For those…
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….
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…
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…
