Category: social history
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Cuckoo
Stories bringing you the sparkle of nature at Christmas As we enter December you might be thinking more about being warm and cosy inside, rather than out birdwatching! And that’s why this is the perfect time to cosy up with a series of short stories that explores the lives of birds from a totally new…
Isabella Muir
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An advent calendar with a difference!
Christmas stories merging nature with history As we enter December you might be thinking more about being warm and cosy inside, rather than out birdwatching! And that’s why this is the perfect time to cosy up with a series of short stories that explores the lives of birds from a totally new perspective! I’ll be…
Isabella Muir
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Janie Juke chega a Portugal, e não só!
Durante o último ano, foi um privilégio ter tido a oportuindade de trabalhar com a maravilhosa tradutora Ana Catarina Palma Neves para fazer chegar os dois primeiros livros da série Mistérios em Sussex aos leitores de língua portuguesa. O Saco de Viagem e Perdidos e Achados desenrolam-se em Sussex, Inglaterra, no final da década de…
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Add a journey in time to your holiday travels!
The good news is that you can now find all my novels on Kindle Unlimited! So, if you are a KU subscriber, then you can immerse yourself in sixties crimes and mysteries for free! The Janie Juke mysteries The Tapestry Bag Lost Property The Invisible Case A Notable Omission The Giuseppe Bianchi mysteries Crossing the Line After…
Isabella Muir
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Janie joins the seventies!
With the publication of the latest novel in the Janie Juke series – A Notable Omission – we find Janie in the spring of 1970 exploring her new-found skills as an amateur sleuth. Once again she has local reporter, Libby Frobisher, by her side. Here’s a reminder of the story… Spring 1970. Sussex University is…
Isabella Muir
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A chance to be heard
As I try to unpick the relationship between the people and the politicians in post-war Britain I’m reflecting on some of the key events when the populace had a chance to express their opinion. Labour Prime Minister, Clement Atlee, had enjoyed five years of leading a majority government, following Labour’s landslide victory just two months…
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From top down to bottom up…
To help me get into the mindset of my fictional characters I have spent the last few years researching recent history. Those of you who are familiar with my novels will know they are all set during the iconic decade of the 1960s, a time when Britain experienced a significant cultural shift. To explore the…
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What’s your number?
Originally posted on Outset Publishing: Nowadays telecommunication is considered so vital that even some children have mobile phones. Yet in 1940s Britain a landline telephone was so rare that barely ten percent of households had one. And if you did decide to have a phone installed you might choose to have a shared line to…
Isabella Muir
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Dreaming of the ‘mother country’
Originally posted on Outset Publishing: In June 1948 the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury Docks bringing hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean who were hoping for a new life in Britain. During the Second World War, thousands of Caribbean men and women had been recruited to serve in the armed forces. Some had been to…
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Writing a trilogy
Firstly, thank you to Isabella for inviting me over to her blog during my ‘Chindi Author of the Week’ which happens to coincide with publication of my second novel, The Coal Miner’s Son. Why write a trilogy? Well, there are a couple of reasons really. As a writer I don’t want to say goodbye to…
Isabella Muir 