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

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I’m so excited to be able to introduce my next title to you – A Little Treat on Honey Street - publishing 1st July.

I adore Angela Pearse’s brilliant heroine, Felicity Fitzroy. I’m so glad she’s back in this third Jane-Austen inspired book, where she’s mor

We're looking for charity partners to benefit from £1 per copy of our books

I'm raising funds for the Daniel Spargo Mabbs Foundation, a drugs education charity. Looking for more charity partners.

This feel-good debut from author Ruth Kramer offers an original, surprising storyline, with some great twists. The deeply emotional,...

The new children’s adventure book, Warning:   This Book Contains Mild Peril,  is a towering achievement from a fantastic debut author....

Hello there. I’m Mrs Powell, the Housekeeper at Tillingford Hall. I’ve been working here since 1970, when I started as a kitchen...