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

My book is on Audible ! Here you can see it on the home page of Audible's UK website on publication day - 9th October - alongside luminaries like Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling), Mel Robbins, Dan Brown, Richard Osman, Bob Mortimer... I won't go on (you can read!) Earlier this year, Summer at Tillingford Hall   was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Debut Novel of the Year 2025 . As a result, it came to the attention of Audible Studios and it wasn’t long before

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...