Library Books!
I am thrilled to announce that my novel Face the Music has been accepted for publication by Ulverscroft as a Linford Romance library book.
Face the Music was originally a People’s Friend pocket novel and will now be a large print book available from all libraries, either from the shelves or on request. No publication date yet, but I will keep you updated.
In the meantime, if you missed it as a pocket novel and can’t wait for the library edition, it is available on Amazon as Allegra in hardback, paperback and as an ebook. Happy reading!
Dazzlingly talented violinist Allegra is travelling to Spain for a concert when she bumps into the last person on earth she wants to see, her ex-fiancé Zack.
There’s plenty of drama including a stolen violin, secrets from the past, mysterious photos and an unexploded World War Two bomb before Allegra finds her happy ever after.
Two of my previous DC Thomson pocket novels have already been re-published as Ulverscroft Linford Romance library books and are available now from your local library either from the shelves or on request. They are not on the shelves in my local library (quite a small branch library) but I am able to request them and they are ordered in from other libraries in the London Consortium very quickly.
Time now to pay a massive tribute to our library service in Croydon which has kept going right through the pandemic under the most difficult of circumstances. I remember when we could only access digital books and newspapers/magazines, then we could order physical copies online which we collected by appointment (fully masked and sanitised); the books were carefully handed to us in brown paper bags which had been held in isolation for the appropriate amount of time. Now everything is back to normal! Except for the reduced library hours, but that is another story…
Thank you to the wonderful library staff all over the country; your dedicated service is invaluable.
These are my two library books available now:
When Rosie Peach arrives for her interview to become Shaston Convent School’s new piano teacher, the first person she meets is striking music master David Hart. As her new role gets underway, Rosie comes up against several obstacles: her predecessor Miss Spiker’s infamous temper, a bunch of unruly but loveable schoolgirls, and her swiftly growing feelings for David. The nuns of the convent are determined to meddle their way towards a school romance, but David is a complex character, and Rosie can’t help but wonder what secrets he is hiding…
August 1970. Eleven-year-old Trixie is miserably homesick when she first arrives at St Hilda’s Convent School, but once she meets young novice Sister Anne and the new chaplain Father Tom, life becomes more interesting. There are obstacles aplenty to overcome before Trixie finally settles in: she gets caught up in a great adventure, and realises nothing is quite as it seems – especially Father Tom! Meanwhile, despite her vocation, romance blossoms between Anne and the priest…
