The ghost of Madam Pigott.
Welcome to my Blog. Your one stop shop to keep up to date with all my latest goings on!!

After Alice Fell: Book Review
This is a book about family love and secrets, where guilt and madness creep within the pages and tragedy and hope entwine with each other.

A Feigned Madness: Book Review
A pioneering and headstrong woman, a coal-choked New York city, and a harrowing Victorian asylum – what is not to love?

Ghosts, Seances and Spiritualism
How the stereotypical gothic image of a circle of people communing with the afterlife came about.

Madhouses and Mental Hospitals
The history of and daily life in lunatic asylums.

The Confessions of Frannie Langton: Book Review
A stunning piece of gothic historical literature that I cannot recommend enough.

Thy drugs are quick: research
"O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." Poisons and potions in my latest research.

Book Review: The Companion
A twisting, gothic, historical tale of love, betrayal and injustice, with a dash of murder too!

Book Inspiration: Bugs and Priest Holes
The inspiration for my free historical novella, The Last Flight of the Ladybird.