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IT had been a long, hard drive. Frances had left early, hoping to get away before the rush hour – only to discover that the rush hour started earlier still. She stopped for a break further south than

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Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…

Don’t write what you know; write what you love. Writing my first novel, Lady MacBethad, was like the bursting of a pipe. The words gushed out of me, and the story flew onto the page with a kind of fre

Over my decades-long writing life, I’ve been a reader, judge and (sometimes) an organiser for many novel-writing competitions, including the Harry Bowling Prize, the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s

My mother is very French. She has the strongest French accent on the planet! This gave me access to two different cultures – different poetry, literature, cooking… The French part of my family was cen