Patricia Leslie

If you’ve spent more night hours awake than asleep - and you weren’t working/at a party/or otherwise awake on purpose - then you probably know and hate the feeling of the intangibility of sleep; when’s just out of reach of your waking brain. I like it because it means sleep will be possible sometime soon and find it irritating because ‘sometime soon’ could still be an hour or more away. That period when the brain starts to rest can also be compared to an open door for creativ

Courage is the fear you ignore. The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life The Great Depression and the people who lived through it — the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battles between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitab

Developing characters for historical or historical fantasy fiction when you've got little more than a few bones to build on.

Macia Durus, daughter of the well known Brutus Durus AMP, works hard to achieve a life of honour and prestige in her beloved Elabi. When a so-called “friend” challenges her priorities, Macia’s confusion threatens her carefully constructed plans. And her decision to investigate a forbidden book could have serious consequences for Macia as well as her family, turning their lives upside down. About the author: Maressa Mortimer is Dutch but lives in the beautiful Cotswolds,

History is anything but definitive. Join me as I look into the non-definitive history of random objects.