Category: My books

  • 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,…

  • A Street Art Festival… #books

    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, also ceramic artwork…

  • Many quilts and a bargain #book…

    (Scroll down for the bargain book…) 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 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. Last week, I visited a microbrewery in St Gallen with the Anglo-Swiss Club. No one has ever called me a massive beer drinker, but it was fascinating…

  • 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: Happy reading!

  • Dreich in November… and a bargain! #SilentSunday #books

    Make that almost Silent Sunday… November hasn’t been the sunniest month so far in N.E. Switzerland, but the old town is impressive even in grey gloom. My “Christmas” cactus collection is looking good too. Not sure we’ll make it to Christmas, though. And finally – Daria’s Daughter is on a UK/US 99p/c deal for the…

  • A wacky exhibition and three #book bargains

    Book bargains first, so if you’re here for the exhibition pics only, just scroll on by. Last week I parted ways – very amicably – with my publisher, and set about republishing the books on Amazon. The process is still ongoing and reviews for two of them haven’t transferred from the existing audiobook versions to…