Category: books

  • Out with the new… #books

    …and in with the “old”. Book covers, that is. I’m really glad to see the Lakeside Hotel books back in their original covers and looking gorgeous. More about this later; it’s the wrong time of year to be promoting a mainly summery series (though there’s a Christmas book too, just sayin’). Watch out for more…

  • Overhanging balconies – and #books

    Balcony pics first. I took all of these in St Gallen, on a street in the old town where you often see groups of tourists wandering around with (and without) tour guides, taking photos of bits of buildings above your head. So you look up, and think, wow, yes, these are seriously amazing; we should…

  • A re-release, kindle bargains and a Zeppelin… #books #travel

    It’s been a busy week… Starting with the book news – The Attic Room is now re-released by the lovely people at DP Books and is currently available for just 99p on kindle. It’s the start of a trio of my books in a new ‘Family Secrets’ series. (Next up is Ward Zero, which is…

  • Coming soon… #books

    Not quite a new book, but definitely the next best thing – I’m delighted that DP Books, the UK arm of a large German digital publisher, will be re-releasing three of my older suspense novels over the next few weeks. First up is The Attic Room, originally published in 2015. The pre-order is running already,…

  • Book Five and a Street Art Festival… #books

    Street art first. Last week, fellow writers Alison Baillie, Louise Mangos and I went to the International Street Art Festival in Frauenfeld. Many of the exhibits from the first festival in 2023 are still there in town, and this year, a different set of artists was invited to contribute with paintings on walls and buildings,…

  • Swiss pics, five books and two bargains… #writing

    It’s been a busy few weeks here in N.E. Switzerland. To start with, there’s the Lakeside Hotel series, which is now complete and up on Amazon – BIG thanks to DP Books for the gorgeous cover images. Number five, Wedding Bells at the Lakeside Hotel is now on pre-order at just 99p worldwide, so grab…

  • Many quilts and two bargain #books…

    (Scroll down for the bargain books…) It was raining in St Gallen last Monday, so a friend and I decided to go to a museum. The Textile Museum being nearby, we dripped in there and found an exhibition of very photogenic quilts and quilting: I seem to have lost the full version of the one…

  • Four beers, three books and a “snowstorm”…

    Here we are in May, and we had several lovely summery days in N.E. Switzerland last week before the weather broke and brought us some much needed rain. But we’ll start with the book news. The first two in my Lakeside Hotel series, Saving the Lakeside Hotel and Return to the Lakeside Hotel are now…

  • Pictures of Switzerland… #books

    We’re getting beautiful spring weather here in N.E. Switzerland – it’s lovely to be able to get out and about without packing woolly hats and gloves and scarves. Last week, a friend and I went to the Würth Haus in Rorschach, where the new exhibition is ‘Sport and Free Time’. The exhibits were many and…

  • On the other side of the Alps… #travel #SilentSunday

    On Friday, a friend and I set off (very) early to visit another friend in the Ticino – Locarno, to be exact. It was a fabulous day: Don’t forget, Saving the Lakeside Hotel is on pre-order at 99p/c with dp Books, and will be out in ten days or so. By summer, all five ebooks…