Shirley Conran

How to snare your reader: the secret of a good blurb

27 August 2022 9:00 am

It sounds disingenuous, not to say dis-respectful, but as a writer of 40 books, give or take, I never read…

Scarlett O’Hara runs through the streets of burning Atlanta

'Where are the happy fictional spinsters?'

18 January 2014 9:00 am

This book arose from an argument. Lifelong bookworm Samantha Ellis and her best friend had gone to Brontë country and…