Hello and welcome to my official website, where you can find lots of information about my historical novels.

My first book, ISABELLA, is set in the English Lake District in the Eighteenth Century and tells the haunting love story of Bounty mutineer, Fletcher Christian and his cousin Isabella Curwen. It was short listed for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2000. My following books, PALE AS THE DEAD and BLOODLINE, combine history with mystery in an original take on the detective novel and feature young ancestor detective or genealogist, Natasha Blake. BLOODLINE won the Mary Higgins Clark Award 2007.

I have just finished writing a new novel set in the seventeenth century against the backdrop of the Restoration and Monmouth Rebellion. It tells the true and dramatic story of a pioneering butterfly collector who was once described as having 'gained happiness from natural history in the midst of great pain and sorrow'.

I enjoy researching my books as much as I enjoy writing them and if you browse these webpages you'll find plenty historical background as well as reviews, news and interviews. I hope you visit again - the pages are regularly updated.

Best wishes
Fiona