NEWS: MAY 2026

Woad, flowering in my garden. The Picts would have approved.

I live with my woodcarver/artist husband, Alan Lees, in a 200 year old country cottage, in the beautiful Scottish lowlands. I used to call myself a playwright, and some of my plays are still in print, but now I write mainly historical and contemporary fiction and non fiction. I'm a keen but slightly chaotic gardener (nothing is ever manicured!) and I love my work, my house, and my village.

 

With rights reversions on all my previous books, fiction and non-fiction, I've been busy through the winter republishing them as eBooks and paperbacks on Amazon, sometimes with new covers by my husband or by our photographer friend, Michal Piasecki. You should be able to find all of them on there, but do check that you're looking at my own Dyrock Publishing imprint, because that's probably where you'll find the best available deal and certainly the most up-to-date version of each book. You can read more about me and my books on my Amazon Author Central page. 

I'm currently working on a quirky piece of non-fiction called Letters from Finland, about my time spent teaching English in Tampere during the mid 1970s, and I'm also planning to revise and reprint a longer version of my novel The Amber Heart, with a new cover. Watch this space. 

If you are looking for a speaker, please check out my Requesting an Event page for more details.

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Birch trees in spring.