by Merryn Allingham | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Join Flora Steele – bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, daydreamer and amateur detective as she tackles her first case! Sussex, 1955: When Flora Steele opens up her bookshop one morning she’s in for the surprise of her life! Because there, amongst her bookcases, is the...
by Merryn Allingham | Jun 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
A woman alone. A man obsessed with revenge. A history that refuses to die. Nancy Tremayne has returned to London, a lonely and isolated figure, weighed down by a shroud of sorrow. Slowly, though, the possibility of a different life begins to emerge. A pathway that...
by Merryn Allingham | Apr 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today, Rio de Janeiro attracts mixed opinions—poverty, crime, gangs etc. come to mind in any conversation. But there was a time in the mid-twentieth century, when the city’s reputation was a glorious one. Its natural beauty is, and always has been, staggering —the...
by Merryn Allingham | Apr 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Immigration has shaped modern Brazil. From 1870 to 1930, between two and three million immigrants arrived in the country, most coming from Europe, but a significant number from the Middle East and Asia. The various ethnic groups—White, Black, European, Indian, and...
by Merryn Allingham | Apr 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s Carnival and everyone is having fun. Though perhaps not everyone… Nancy Tremayne is on holiday in Rio with her husband, Leo, and the city is dancing from dawn to dusk. An explosion of energy and colour that Nancy loves. But when she overhears an ugly quarrel,...