“It is June 1349. In the Hampshire village of Meonbridge, the worst plague in England’s history has wiped out half its population…” We call that plague the Black Death. At the time they referred to it as the great death, the mortality or the pestilence. It arrived in England in June 1348 and lasted a …
Month: September 2016
The meandering river Meon
A few people have asked me about the significance of the photo I use on my website and other social media sites… Photo: Carolyn Hughes This is a view of the river Meon, in Hampshire, very close to where I live. The Meon is not a grand river, for it is only twenty-one miles in …
Why write historical fiction?
Why have I decided to write a blog? Perhaps because I wanted to share some of the fascination and pleasure of the novel-writing journey that I have been undertaking these past few years. I have been writing fiction for a long time – all my adult life, on and off, in between work and family …
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