The Next Book…’The Web’…

My next book will be another historical fiction novel, this time set in the village of Long Lawford in Warwickshire. Mentioned in the Doomsday Book, the village has a rich history spanning the centuries and offers the perfect setting for a new historical fiction novel. This will be a tale of love, loss, land and loyalty spread over several time periods. At the moment though, I am struggling with Long Covid, so my research is currently paused while I focus on resting, planning and pacing.

I did recently visit Tamworth Castle and was pleased to see the ‘witch marks’ in the Elizabethan porch. I think witchcraft will almost certainly feature in the next novel…

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Those of you who have been asking about my next book might find the FB video above offering a sneaky look in my research journal interesting!


You can’t just sit down and write a historical fiction novel without research and my next book has five time periods spanning a thousand years, so there is quite a lot of reading for me to do! These are some of the books I am working my way through. They might give you a clue about the kind of characters and plot you will encounter in The Web…

I walk my setting and I imagine my characters there. Slowly they take shape, they come to life…
Long Covid has disrupted my timetable for book number two but at least I know what still needs to be done before I can start writing
I have characters, I have plot, I have five time periods and a setting…

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