Allie's Blog

Eighteen months ago, upon the killing of George Floyd, there was a long-overdue upsurge in calls for proper equality and inclusion in all...

In my book The Lady in the Veil, my villain takes the form of a woman. Lady Jane Talbot is as shrewish as possible, avid for gossip,...

If there are two things likely to hook me in a book it is an old house and a family tree. Norah Loft’s House books were early favourites...

All writers are readers, and I am no exception. I read fairly widely, but the nineteenth century classics are my favourites and I often...

All writers are readers, and I am no exception. Generally speaking I am monogamous - reading only one book at a time. I wouldn’t like to...

October is an odd time to review the year, but it is the time when I set my mind to my new writing project, so I thought it would be a...

“A number of years ago, a new trend in writing rose from some cursed tar pit filled with flawlessly cleansed ancient skeletons. So,...

I’ve decided to launch a competition to win a six book bundle of Alternative Austen novels. One of them will be mine, of course, but I...

I wrote this short story a few years ago, and published it in an anthology of the same name. Just quite recently, out of the blue, I had...

2020 was certainly a very peculiar and challenging year. We stayed home and discovered things like TikTok and Zoom and how to make banana...