The Italian Girl by Lucinda Riley
From the blurb: Nothing sings as sweetly as love, or burns quite like betrayal Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini,
From the blurb: Nothing sings as sweetly as love, or burns quite like betrayal Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini,
Today I’m delighted to be participating in the fifth annual Spooktacular Giveaway Hop run by I Am a Reader, Not a Writer. I’m giving away
How many women, since he first found fame on ER, have fantasised about marrying George Clooney? Well, it was British-Lebanese human rights lawyer AmalAlamuddin who finally
George R.R. Martin is without doubt an exceptional writer. He has just one flaw, according to fans: he doesn’t write quickly enough to keep up
I could fill a blog post a day on how Amazon is changing the face of publishing – the repercussions of its actions are monumental
Have you heard of new publishing innovation The Chatsfield? If you’re thinking That sounds like a cross between a Chesterfield, the swanky couch, and Chatsworth,
I have written before of that quintessential symbol of Venice, setting for my novel The Echoes of Love: the gondola. But what of its pilot,
From the blurb: Some memories can be forgotten . . . Others won’t ever go away. For renowned actor Sir Mungo, his quiet home village
This week I’ve been reading the brilliant Authorisms: Words Wrought by Writers by Paul Dickson. Regular readers of my blog will known that I am
I take a great interest in trends in publishing, especially within the romance genre, and it has struck me how much popular fiction in the
The course of true love never did run smooth’ – so wrote Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and I think that no single axiom
I’m delighted to be participating in this Stuck in a Good Book Giveaway Hop. I’m giving away two paperback copies
Do you use Google as a browser? If so, you may have noticed, on 9 September, that Google marked 186 years since the birth of
When I travel to a new city, I’m always interested to see the main sights. In Venice, for example – where I went recently to
It’s September, and while in England we’re enjoying a brief revival of summer’s warmth, the first yellowing leaves drifting on the breeze tell that
From the blurb: And then came war . . . Today. Sera James spends most of her time arranging auctions for the art world’s elite
Did you know that audio books are a fast-growing sector in publishing? Between 2008 and 2013, revenue grew by 12 per cent annually to a
Last week I wrote about using the male point of view in romance fiction.Deciding on whose point of view you’re writingin is just one aspect
This month marks three years since I began the Hannah Fielding blog. How time has flown, and how this blog has grown! In the past
It’s that time of year again: the Venice Film Festival, running from 27 August to 6 September. Did you know that the Venice Film Festival
When a reader picks up a traditional romantic novel, she/he has certain basic expectations: That the
From the blurb: How to Become London’s Most Notorious Widow: 1. Vow to NEVER remarry 2. Own a ship and become fabulously wealthy 3. Wear
Recently the Guardian reported on a study on retention of digital reads versus paper reads. Researchers gave participants an Elizabeth George short story. Twenty-five readers
We read in black and white: black text on a white page, be it a paper one or a virtual ‘e-page’ on a screen. But
My latest book, The Echoes of Love, is set in Italy: Venice, Tuscany and Sicily. I love Italy for its passion, its beauty, its long
I love book bloggers! I love book bloggers because of their passion, their hard work, their integrity, their sensibility and their support for authors; and
Astute, intelligent, gripping romance for the modern woman. From the first page I was entirely hooked. I love, love the world in which the story
Were I to write now a scene for the characters of my latest novel, The Echoes of Love, set in Italy, it would include them
We’re all familiar with serial dramas on the television, but books? Once, reading a story one instalment at a time was wildly popular. Back in
I grew up speaking French, predominantly – it was the language used at my school, for example. But because I lived in Egypt, it was
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