When I first started writing, it was fantasy that inspired me, but somewhere along the way, I realised that fantasy works best when it best reflects real life, and that real life can be fantastical enough for me. I moved to my present home, deep in the wooded countryside of north Pembrokeshire, and during oneContinue reading “The Inspiration for A Time For Silence”
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Sagas: keeping it in the family
I was slightly surprised when my first novel, A Time For Silence, was classified on Amazon as a family saga. My publisher had told me it was crime fiction and I had thought of it as a simple mystery. Besides, it was a single book and I never expected to add to the series. SurelyContinue reading “Sagas: keeping it in the family”
The Covenant: a week to remember
Some weeks are more hectic than others. This last has been very hectic non-stop activity for me, which is not bad considering I barely left the house, or the keyboard. My latest novel, The Covenant, is finally published, and although I’ve had books published before, they have never previously made their appearance in the middleContinue reading “The Covenant: a week to remember”
There is Still Crime!The Covenant, by Thorne Moore #BookLaunch #Review #FridayReads
Thank you, Judith Barrow, for this blog review
The Covenant: Voices from the Grave
Back in 2012, I published my first novel, A Time For Silence. It was a stand-alone novel and I didn’t intend it to be the first of a series. There were to be no sequels. But the story never quite left me alone. I knew where all the characters, past and present, were heading, but whereContinue reading “The Covenant: Voices from the Grave”
The Covenant: Welsh Gothic
There’s a famous picture, American Gothic, by Grant Wood, which leaves many people smiling (unlike the couple in the picture), but it also leaves them thinking. Is the grim man holding his pitchfork as a support? Or as a symbol of honest productive work? Or as a weapon to fend off the world.Is his equally grim daughterContinue reading “The Covenant: Welsh Gothic”
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”
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”
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