Women’s Right to Vote
With saturation coverage of elections at the moment, take a moment to reflect on how far women have come over the last few generations. I was in Christchurch (New Zealand) recently, where the Canterbury Museum is displaying taonga/treasures collected over the past 150 years. The biggest drawcard was the dress worn by women’s suffrage campaigner,… Continue Reading →
NZ Crime and Mystery Writing
A big night tonight for New Zealand crime and mystery writing – the annual Ngaio Marsh Awards will be presented at the Word Christchurch festival. Congratulations to all the authors short-listed. (https://wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/the-ngaio-marsh-awards/) New Zealand is brimming with terrific writers, many of whom don’t get the recognition they deserve. I suppose, like most things, it comes… Continue Reading →
Kate Mosse, Carcassonne & Arles at Christmas
Who else is jumping with excitement at the prospect of reading the next book by Kate Mosse? The City of Tears is the sequel to The Burning Chambers (2018) and hits the shelves 14 January 2021 (https://www.katemosse.co.uk/). The City of Tears is set in 1572 at the height of the Wars of Religion between the… Continue Reading →
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