Interview with Georgia Hill

Georgia Hill’s debut novel Pursued by Love is out on December 1st.
Read an interview with her about her book and her favourite Darcy, over on www.escapewithabook.com

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The Unmissable Garrow’s Law

Garrow’s Law: Tales from the Old Bailey ended it’s four part run on BBC 1 on Sunday, so with m’lud’s permission, I’d like to offer my verdict and say I loved it.
Garrow’s Law has been a delight to brighten these dark November nights and many others feel the same, judging by the buzz on the [...]

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A Victorian Christmas

Nobody does Christmas quite like the Victorians. I’ll be watching this program: “A Victorian Christmas” on the BBC on December 11th at 9pm on BBC2.
Brought to us by the same people who did Victorian Farm, the presenters will take us step by step through many of the Victorian Christmas traditions.
I’m looking forward to it already!
In [...]

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Pursued by Love by Georgia Hill

escapewithabook.com are proud to announce our next title is due for release on 1st December: Pursued by Love by Georgia Hill.
We are really excited about this book, not only because it’s our first contemporary romance, but because it’s simply a fantastic book!
Here is the synopsis:
When a modern day Darcy and Elizabeth are stranded in a [...]

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So where do we get our heroes from?

Reading an interview with the delightful and very down to earth sounding India Grey (winner of the RNA’s Romance prize, 2009) in the November issue of Writing Magazine, something struck a chord.
Ms. Grey (Mistress: Hired for the Billionaire’s Pleasure and Spanish Aristocrat, Forced Bride, both for Mills and Boon) was asked that old chestnut, where [...]

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V for Venetia

I needed a catchy title for this blog post and a homage to V for Vendetta (great film!) fitted the bill perfectly. Or maybe I should have coined, in true V fashion, ‘Voila! Voluptuous voice to vocalise Venetia!’
Enough of the alliteration for the moment, let’s get down to the news – the fabulous news -that [...]

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A History of Private Life

Autumn heralds the new season of TV and radio productions and there are two I’m currently enjoying: A History of Private Life on BBC Radio and Garrow’s Law: Tales from the Old Bailey on BBC TV.
Professor Amanda Vickery (the historian and award-winning author of The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England) writes and presents [...]

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Halloween Fright!

It was Halloween yesterday, and the old romantic that I am thought about this scene in BBC’s “Our Mutual Friend” adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel.
Enough to give any girl a fright – a crazed man proposing marriage in a graveyard. Oh, and his name is Mr Headstone…

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