Influences

• Jane Austen, Susan Hill, Lawrence Durrell, Virginia Woolf, T.S.Eliot, Kahlil Gibran...

Favorite Books

• Restoration - Rose Tremain,

  Rites of Passage - William Golding,

  The Waves - Virginia Woolf,

  To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf,

  Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon,

  Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

Favorite Authors

• Anya Seton, Helen Ashton, Mark Twain, Susan Hill, Julian Barnes, Rose Tremain, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Forster, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Rachel Billington, Anita Brookner, Salley Vickers, Turgenev, Tolstoy,Flaubert, Zola, Colette, Mrs Gaskell, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Rosemary Hawley Jarman, Dumas (the younger) William Golding, Kasuo Ishiguro, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Paul Theroux, Laurie Lee, Joanna Trollope, John Mortimer, David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, Jessie Kesson, Frances Wilson, Beryl Bainbridge, Isobel Colegate, Jane Austen,Thomas Hardy, Antonia White, Herman Wouk, Gerard W Hughes, Alice Thomas Ellis, Lawrence Durrell, Mary Webb, Susan Howatch, Kate Atkinson, Tracy Chevalier, Peter Ackroyd, Andre Gide....

What I'm Reading

• Research for The Berkeley Trilogy

Web Links

• Rosy Cole
• The Society of Authors (UK)
• Historical Novel Society
• WriteWords