The area around Exeter has always been a favoured part of the country. Although the city had suffered some of the effects of the war, it had got off lightly compared to the rest of the country. There had been one or two daylight bombing raids but Devon, being in the West of England, had […]
What was life like in Southern England in 1953? The Second World War had ended eight years earlier but Britain had taken a long time to recover. The financial effort of fighting a huge war in Europe, Africa and the Far East (alone for nearly three years) had bankrupted the nation. It was massively in […]
I am pausing from blogging about the fascinating little village of Rennes-le-Chateau in order to tell you about the new novel which I will be publishing later this month. It is called Riversmeet – Starting Out and I attach a picture of the cover. This is a different book for me in several ways. Firstly […]
This week I said I would discuss what happened to the secret which the Marquise de Blanchefort confided to the Abbé Antoine Bigou before her death in January 1781 – a secret which terrified the priest. But, before I do that, a number of events need to be reconsidered. The first is that there seems […]
I apologise for not continuing my blogs for the last month. We have been away for three weeks – part of it exploring the Loire and Dordogne valleys in France. Then, when we got back, I found there was a pile of work waiting. However I have at last made an hour free to […]