I am so pleased to be talking with Jan Baynham on my blog today. Having known Jan for some years and seen her writing going from strength to strength I was thrilled to hear that she is one of the contenders for the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) 2020 prestigious Joan Hessayon Award for new writers, […]Continue reading “Introducing Jan Baynham, Author of Her Mother’s Secret and a worthy Romantic Novelists’ Association contender for the Joan Hessayon Award. #WritersLife #WriterWednesday — Judith Barrow”
Author Archives: thornemoore
The Covenant and the World of Tom Mathias
When I first moved to Pembrokeshire, back in the early 1980s, a fascinating discovery had just been made in the area: a cache of negative plates taken by a local photographer, Tom Mathias, 1866-1940. The plates had been rescued and restored by another photographer, James Maxwell Davies, and were put on display in the village whereContinue reading “The Covenant and the World of Tom Mathias”
Book Release: The Memory by Judith Barrow #familylifefiction — Judith Barrow
Originally posted on From the Pen of Mae Clair: I have a new guest on my blog today. I “met” Judith Barrow through Story Empire, then invited her to share her latest release The Memory. Please make her feel welcome as she gives us a behind the scenes look at what inspired her to write… BookContinue reading “Book Release: The Memory by Judith Barrow #familylifefiction — Judith Barrow”
A Covenant of Blood
My novel, The Covenant has religion is at its heart. It’s ironic that I am, and have always been, an avowed atheist, since religion fascinates me, and that’s as well because there’s no escaping it in The Covenant. It’s a story focused on the family that produced John Owen, who rules the roost at the cottage ofContinue reading “A Covenant of Blood”
The Covenant: The Weaker Vessel
I write domestic noir. Or is it historical fiction? Or family sagas? Whatever it is, I do like my main characters to be struggling against the odds, which is probably why they have all been women. Because, even today, being a woman gives a character a head start in the “up against it” league. SetContinue reading “The Covenant: The Weaker Vessel”
The Covenant and the low heat of technology
My new novel, The Covenant, coming out in August, is set in West Wales in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Set a novel in that period in a city, in London or Manchester, and it wouldn’t be difficult to paint a period that everyone with any knowledge of history would recognise. My characters would be flag-waving forContinue reading “The Covenant and the low heat of technology”
The Covenant: Down on the farm
My novel, The Covenant, prequel to A Time For Silence, is set in the late 19th/early 20th century in West Wales, which was, and still is, relentlessly rural, centred around small market towns and railway halts. Not the agriculture you find in the east, broad rolling acres of golden grain around spacious farmhouses with cathedral-sized barns, butContinue reading “The Covenant: Down on the farm”
Coming fairly shortly: The Covenant
I now have a cover for my next novel, The Covenant, which will be published on August 20th.It’s the prequel to A Time For Silence and is set in the same isolated Pembrokeshire cottage of Cwmderwen. Both books feature a ruined cottage on the cover, but not the same one. Long before I thought of writing any bookContinue reading “Coming fairly shortly: The Covenant”
Thorne Moore 