ANGELA BARTON

Growing up, we all fantasise about meeting our hero or heroine and living happily ever after. Falling in love is easy – isn’t it? Well, yes. Falling in love ...

Covid 19 may have dampened the 75th VE Day celebrations by keeping us indoors, but we can honour those brave soldiers and the supportive families they left ...

It's said that eavesdroppers seldom hear any good about themselves, and this prophecy proves to be true when Blake listens in on a private conversation betwe...

(I'll never get used to omitting an apostrophe from Waterstones!) Last month a dream of mine was realised. I had an author event at Waterstones in Nottingham...

Welcome to my blog, Helen and thanks for joining me for an interview. It’s great to meet other authors who set their fiction in France. I'm sure your reader...

The Truth Lies Buried is available as an eBook, paperback and audiobook. Two children in a police waiting room, two distressed mothers, a memory only half re...

Today is 10th June and also the 75th anniversary of the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane. Oradour was a beautiful small town in south-west France. It was peacef...

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and as romance in the air, so I’ve put together a few of my favourite declarations of love. Some are short and succ...

Some years ago while I was walking from my hotel in Hammersmith to The London Book Fair, I passed a terrace of three-storey Edwardian houses. They all looked...

Welcome Morton. It was so lovely to meet you in person at the RNA Conference in Leeds. Congratulations on winning Choc Lit Publishing's Search for a Star Com...

Not many of you will know what anniversary falls today – the 10th of June. I wonder how many of you have heard of Oradour-sur-Glane, in France? I have to adm...

1. Exposition (Setting the scene.) This is the every day life in which the story is set. Introduce your main character/s. Where are they? What do they want t...

Mathematics? It's a foreign language to me. Sudoku? Why put yourself through such misery? (Supposedly for fun). Memories of binary lessons at my girls' gramm...

Vianne Mauriac lives in the quiet village of Carriveau, in France. Vianne’s husband, Antoine, heads for the Front leaving her alone with her young daughter. ...