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Something about Jane
It was wonderful to part of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath in September. And wonderful to have an article about my experience published...
Oh look! Kitty is mixing with royalty now
And you thought HELLO! magazine was just for the royals! Delighted to point out that What Kitty Did Next has been reviewed in this week's...
Kitty launched in Australia
Fabulous night on 29 August at the wonderful Better Read Than Dead bookshop in Sydney's Newtown for the Australian launch of What Kitty ...
Rude, gloomy and a depressive. Is this the Darcy you know (and love)?
Just been rereading Sebastian Faulks' take on Mr Darcy in his Faulks on Fiction (BBC Books). There's an abridged version below, courtesy...
"Look here, I have bought this bonnet..."
Spent the morning trimming a bonnet, and feeling most Lydia Bennet-esque! Still one has to look one's best for one's nephew's wedding on...
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance - Jane Austen
This, from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra and written some 200 years ago, perfectly sums up the weather in London today. Like...
I blog, you blog, we blog....
Being an erudite lot, you quite probably already know this but it’s only just occurred to me to find out. Where did “blog” come from?...
Well, hello Kitty!
Six advance copies of What Kitty Did Next have just lobbed into Sydney. So here's me, holding the new baby! Very excited. Can you tell?...
Confessions of a word nerd
I’ve been reading the dictionary again! Checking the etymology of words that want to wander into my prose, set in Regency England. It is...
Bear essentials for the likes of Mr Darcy
One of the more intriguing things I discovered when researching What Kitty Did Next (published by Red Door Books on 28 June, in just...
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