Tag: fiction

• Goldeneye

  Stories bringing you the sparkle of nature at Christmas As I uncover – Goldeneye – the third short story in the Michael Grey series – I hope you’re enjoying this advent calendar with a difference! It’s been such a pleasure researching and writing these stories, focusing on nature and wildlife, while still immersing myself in…

  Isabella Muir

  December 7, 2023

  birdwatching, Christmas, family life, nature, short stories, sixties, social history, Sussex, wildlife, writing

  1960s, birdwatching, Christmas, fiction, nature, short stories, wildlife

• Wheatear

  Stories bringing you the sparkle of nature at Christmas The second instalment of our Michael Grey advent calendar of short stories that merges nature with history, brings us Wheatear. In Wheatear we learn a little more about Michael Grey’s life and childhood home – St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex. We meet his parents, William and Winifred…

  Isabella Muir

  December 5, 2023

  birdwatching, Christmas, family life, nature, short stories, sixties, social history, Sussex, wildlife, writing

  1960s, birdwatching, Christmas, fiction, nature, short stories, wildlife

• 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

  December 3, 2023

  birdwatching, Christmas, family life, nature, short stories, sixties, social history, Sussex, wildlife, writing

  1960s, birdwatching, Christmas, fiction, nature, short stories, wildlife

• 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

  December 2, 2023

  birdwatching, Christmas, family life, nature, short stories, sixties, social history, Sussex, wildlife, writing

  1960s, birdwatching, Christmas, fiction, nature, short stories, wildlife

• 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…

  Isabella Muir

  September 11, 2023

  Agatha Christie, crime fiction, family life, Janie Juke, mysteries, reading, sixties, social history, Sussex, translation

  cozy mysteries, fiction, mysteries, social history, suspense, swinging sixties, translation

• 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

  August 15, 2023

  Child Migrants Trust, crime fiction, family life, Janie Juke, mysteries, reading, sixties, social history, Sussex

  cozy mysteries, fiction, Italy, mysteries, social history, swinging sixties

• 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

  January 25, 2023

  crime fiction, family life, Janie Juke, mysteries, politics, seventies, social history

  cozy mysteries, equality, fiction, inspiration, mysteries, seventies, social history, suspense, women's rights

• Brand new!

  To celebrate the publication of a brand new novel in the Janie Juke Crime Mystery series (coming very soon!), the current series is available at a discounted price from now – right up until Christmas Eve! What’s more the series has some snappy new covers! And, as if that’s not enough fun for a pre-Christmas…

  Isabella Muir

  November 24, 2022

  Janie Juke, mysteries, sixties, writing

  cozy mysteries, discounts, fiction, mysteries, special offer, swinging sixties

• A promise of a better life

  

  On 29th August 2018  BBC News reported that some of the child migrants who were sent to Australia from the UK are planning to sue the UK Government.  The article explains… Between 1945-70, some 4,000 children were separated from their families and sent to Australia and Zimbabwe. The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) considered…

  Isabella Muir

  September 4, 2018

  Child Migrants Trust, research, writing

  children, cultural history, family life, fiction, mysteries, Sussex

• Best-selling author of all time!

  Any guesses as to who is the most read author in the world? Well, according to a recent Wikipaedia article, it is Agatha Christie – who has estimated sales of between two and four billion!  Even beating the bard, William Shakespeare! Hercule Poirot appeared in 33 of her published ‘whodunits’ – which numbered 85 in…

  Isabella Muir

  September 2, 2018

  Agatha Christie, Janie Juke, mysteries, Sussex, writing

  cozy mysteries, family life, fiction, Italy, RAF, Second World War, social history, suspense, swinging sixties