James Irving-McAuley was Laura Huntley’s first boyfriend when she was in sixth form, fifteen years ago. They broke up when she went to university and she’s had no contact with him… until now.

Rob is Laura Huntley’s boyfriend in A Little Treat on Honey Street. He’s a handsome lawyer in his late thirties with dark hair, piercing blue eyes and a nice backside. He also happens to be Laura’s boss in the MegaCorp Compliance team. Find out more about him.

This mushroom Bourguignon is so thick and rich that you really won’t miss the meat. The perfect Veganuary supper party dish for your sceptical meat-eating friends.

Today is the 250th Anniversary of Dear Jane’s birth in 1775, I ask what is it about Jane Austen that stirs so much devotion in her millions of followers? Even if you think you’re not a fan, read on – you might find a new perspective. Dear Jane Everyone will have their theories about the enduring appeal of Jane Austen and they’re often about plot structure, character, the high-stakes emotion but for me, that’s not where it begins. Despite being a writer, I’m not very clever at

Back in November I popped into the Audible Studios in London's Barbican and met Nathalie Buscombe, the personable and talented narrator of my first two audio books - Summer at Tillingford Hall and Christmas at Tillingford Hall. Nathalie kindly answered a few questions about what it's like being an audio book narrator. Nathalie Buscombe (L) with Flora (R) at Audible Studios F: How long have you been doing audio book narration? N: I can’t quite believe it, but I’ve been doing i

Easy and delicious gingerbread recipe

Hannah Langdon's three Christmas books, Christmas with the Lords, Christmas with the Knights and Christmas with the Princes all deserve a re-read in my opinion, but read on to find out why I'm going to get emotional when I do that.

Launched this evening at a delightful gathering in Earlsfield's Brathway Hall, You Too, the third book in the Millingham series, continues the story of Anna and Rob once, beginning just after where the previous book left off.

Hallowe’en is a semi-Christian festival, based on the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (for more on this, see Christmas at Tillingford Hal l) which found its way to America and came back commercialised. Read on to find out why I love Hallowe'en... Happy Jack When I was a child, Hallowe’en was more of thing you read about in American books like Richard Scarry  or The Berenstein Bears’ Almanac  or saw on American TV shows like Sesame Street . But there were mentions of it in

If you enjoyed reading about the spicy pumpkin soup in Chapter 29 of Christmas at Tillingford Hall , then you might like to make the recipe yourself. I 'asked Sahara' to share it with us! Pumpkin ready to go! So, I've decided to start eating cooked food again. The raw food diet wasn't helping me gain weight at all, and seeing my Dearest Brother looking so dejected when I tried to feed him another plate of salad after a hard day working in the rain made me feel like I was tort

Well, here’s the surprise of the year. I saw this book in Sainsbury’s and I thought it looked kinda cute and slightly different from the sort of thing I’d normally read. I might read a café book (my own book, A Little Treat on Honey Street, is a classic café book!), but dragons not so much. Although, having said that, I did enjoy Harry Potter  and I do love children’s books, especially the How To Train Your Dragon  books read on Audible by the exceptionally talented David Ten

I’m so excited to be able to introduce my next title to you – Christmas at Tillingford Hall - publishing 18th November 2025

Lumina Publications aims to bring light and joy to the world, not only through enlightening and entertaining people, but by supporting charities. Last year I was just starting out and I wasn’t making any money (writing novels was a rather expensive hobby, in fact!). The only way I could actually support charities was by giving them my own money based roughly on the sales of copies of paperbacks and e-books. This was my way of motivating myself to try to sell more books – prof

Summer at Tillingford Hall is now available on Audible and AudiblePlus narrated by Nathalie Buscombe

We first meet Charlie Patcham when Alice , the heroine of Summer at Tillingford Hall  goes to visit her in Bath, where she’s living a...

Sometimes you come across a book so atmospheric you feel transported. This is one of those books. Not that 1750s Paris is necessarily a...

How including the name of a 1980s student band in my latest novel lead me down an internet rabbit hole that lead me to Lee Hall, one of the UK's leading screenwriters

Laura Huntley, trying to be a city slicker, but inside she's a domestic goddess.

The latest offering from Lynne Shelby, the doyenne of the gentle location-based romance, is a show-stopping high-kicking extravaganza set...

Summer at Tillingford Hall, my debut novel, has been shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR award! The