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…
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 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….
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Frequently asked questions: What is the chronological order of your historical novels? In which order is it best for me to read them in? Some readers, new to my…
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…
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…
Celebrating Joan of Kent as The Shadow Queen. http://buff.ly/2pKQh5t Ten Fascinating Facts: 1.Daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, son of Edward I by his second wife, Joan was…
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