Wendy Percival

If you're on my newsletter mailing list as well as a reader of this blog, you will already know (and my apologies for repeating myself!) that the fourth Esme...

Sometimes it's good to get away from the keyboard for some inspiration and that's exactly what I did this week. Wandering around the locations I use for sett...

I'm delighted to welcome Sandra Danby, author of the 'Identity Detective' series, to this week's Bite-size blog. Sandra's series character is Rose Haldane, a...

I shall be off-grid for a couple of weeks from tomorrow as I take a holiday in Cornwall (yes, Cornwall again!). This time I'm staying in Fowey (pronounced Fo...

This week mark's the anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, which is a bit of coincidence as I've just finished reading Barbara Lamplugh'...

While debating what book I should read next, after two set in Cornwall, The Silence Before Thunder by Kathy Shuker appeared on my radar. I read a post on the...

You can actually smell the Mary Rose! When you pass through the air-lock on the top floor of the Mary Rose Museum into the same chamber as the ship's timbers...

As you'll know if you read my recent post [see Stepping Back in History] I revisited The Weald & Downland Museum last week. I can confirm that the site is ju...

By the time you read this post, I shall be out and about in our campervan exploring the rich heritage of our wonderful countryside. Coincidentally, one of th...

I've thoroughly enjoyed the recent BBC TV series, A House Through Time which tells the history of 5 Ravensworth Terrace in Newcastle through the stories of i...

While I was holidaying in Cornwall recently, we visited the National Trust’s Levant Tin Mine - very Poldark! It was on this part of the Cornish cost where th...

As I promised - an update on my holiday reading choices (see Therapeutic Cornwall). I started with Ghostwritten by Isabel Wolff. As you'll know from if you r...

By the time this post whooshes its way on to the the World Wide Web, I’ll be away recharging my batteries on the Cornish coast. In the past, when went away w...

Poor John Edworthy died aged only 12 years old, in a horrific accident. In my blog post last week, Churchyard Mysteries, I wrote about my discovery of three ...

I'm delighted to welcome author and genealogist Janet Few to the Bite-size blog today! I interviewed Janet on my Family History Secrets blog in August 2017 w...

Sorry about the pun but I couldn't resist it! As some of you may know, I'm currently in the middle of writing a novella which will be a "prequel" to the firs...

I hope you've recovered from all your festivities and are looking forward to the New Year. So, I have to ask the inevitable question – have you made any New ...

Our local library was lucky enough recently to have a visit by crime fiction author, Kate Ellis. Her Wesley Peterson series is set in Devon, in the fictional...

This blog has fallen silent recently as I've been away holidaying on Tresco, one of the islands of the beautiful Isles of Scilly. I already knew from my rese...