Maggie Davies
Burned at the Stake?
It is tempting to dream of being magically transported into the past. Not, of course, to be Anne Boleyn, kneeling on the scaffold...
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Maggie Davies
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
The Daughter of Time by Josephone Tey
I first read The Daughter of Time as a teenager and it fueled a lifelong fascination with history and an interest in Shakespeare's...
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Maggie Davies
- Oct 5, 2022
- 2 min
The Late Hilary Mantel
In the spring of 2015 I wrote the following post in my writing group's blog (ninevoices.wordpress.com) and the sad demise of Hilary...
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Maggie Davies
- Sep 5, 2022
- 3 min
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
'At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring. Inman's eyes and the long wound at his neck drew them, and the sound of their...
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Maggie Davies
- Sep 3, 2022
- 4 min
The King Under the Car Park
The Richard III Society commissioned Caroline Wilkinson, Professor of Craniofacial Identification at the University of Dundee, to...
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Maggie Davies
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min
Hunter's Chase by Val Penny
When an interrupted burglary ends with the thief being pursued across an Edinburgh golf course and his ankle-breaking collapse on top of...
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Maggie Davies
- May 22, 2022
- 2 min
H is for Hawk
For Christmas I bought my husband a book about a woman who buys a bird and attempts to train it. Not my kind of thing. I'm drawn to books...
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Maggie Davies
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
The Fairy Dogmother - A Lesson For Writers About Rejection
You are at the kitchen table, drooping over yet another rejected story. In her basket Ruby, the cocker spaniel, looks expectant, head...
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Maggie Davies
- Dec 28, 2021
- 1 min
My Lovely Husband...
For Christmas my lovely husband ordered a personalised jigsaw from Wentworth Puzzles. Who needs Mr Darcy...?
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Maggie Davies
- Nov 21, 2021
- 1 min
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
There are books that you want to read a second time and Jung Chang's Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is one. I read the story soon...
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Maggie Davies
- Nov 4, 2021
- 1 min
Police Procedurals
I have written before about my enjoyment of good crime fiction, which I find an excellent change of pace from historical novels and...
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cpaveley
- Sep 13, 2021
- 6 min
Elizabeth Gaskell – novels for our time
From time to time I like to include articles about books by writers other than myself, and the following is a piece by Tanya van Hasselt,...
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Maggie Davies
- Aug 25, 2021
- 2 min
CECILY - by Annie Garthwaite
Before reading this book I was already aware that Cecily Neville - granddaughter of John of Gaunt and the mistress who subsequently...
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cpaveley
- Aug 1, 2021
- 4 min
How my novel was published
I am delighted to welcome one of my periodic guest contributors, writing here about how she succeeded in having her debut novel...
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Maggie Davies
- Jun 11, 2021
- 8 min
Twenty-Six Little Bones
Short story competitions keep many writers going. Less of a commitment than a novel and good practice for our craft, they offer the hope...
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Maggie Davies
- Jun 2, 2021
- 1 min
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Katie, Charlotte and Trudie, whose names came out of the hat yesterday for free, signed copies of The Servant. They...
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Maggie Davies
- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
My Writing Life
My favourite writing places are coffee shops, and now we are allowed back inside... A couple of mornings a week, in normal times, I...
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Maggie Davies
- May 10, 2021
- 1 min
Grave's End by William Shaw
When a corpse is found in the freezer of an unoccupied mansion, DS Alexandra Cupidi is handed a case made even colder by nobody seeming...
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Maggie Davies
- Mar 26, 2021
- 1 min
Love Historical Fiction?
If you love historical fiction, you might enjoy a FREE online event on the evening of Wednesday the 14th April. At 7.30 pm, Alison Weir...
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Maggie Davies
- Mar 3, 2021
- 3 min
"A very fine cat indeed..."
Are writers attracted to cats? Or cats to writers? In a Zoom interview last year Maggie O'Farrell spoke of retreating to the solitude of...
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