A quick post to wish all my readers and book friends a very happy holiday season, and plenty of reading for the new year.
This year I have published two books – Last Train to Freedom set in WW2 and The Cameo Keeper, set in Renaissance Rome. There will be a fifth book in the Renaissance series eventually, but I have another few books to finish first. Next year, April will see the publication of The Enemy’s Wife, the second in the series following Zofia after her WW2 journey on the Trans-Siberian Express, and then there will be a third in that series set in the Cold War era in Chicago.
For now though, I am working on a novel set during the Partition of India, The River Between Us, and this will appear the following year, the 80th anniversary of that event. In the process of writing and publication everything is a year or so ahead of when the book actually hits the shelves or your e-reader. I am enjoying the research and writing, and finding out about this momentous event in history. My father was brought up as Anglo-Indian in India, and the Partition affected him and his family in ways I hadn’t fully understood until doing the research.
Over Christmas I hope to catch up on my reading and have a few weeks away from the desk and the plot-wrangling that always occupies so much of my mind. Looking at the weather forecast it seems the rain has eased off at last, and I hope for some long walks and then evenings in front of the fire with family and friends.
Wherever you are, I hope you have a lovely time and send you all good wishes for 2026.
