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Hi, I’m Vanessa and welcome to my site.
In 2015, I won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect event and my first novel, Death Will Find Me, was published in February, 2019. The second Tessa Kilpatrick book will be out early next year and in the meantime, I’ll soon be launching a series of art crime thrillers.
You can find out more about me and what I’m up to by following the links at the top, and there are contact details below if you want to ask me any questions or invite me to talk at your bookshop, library or festival.
Author Archives: vanessa
A Shameless Plug!
As some of you may know, I run a tiny publishing company called Fidra Books which specialises in rescuing neglected children’s classics. It’s a labour of love which will never make me rich but I do love it and I … Continue reading
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Finally… we’re gardening!
Our last place had a huge garden (by my standards) – allotment-sized veg plot, greenhouse, lawns, a long driveway and a front garden with trees – the most beautiful mature corkscrew hazel you’ve ever seen, ripped out by the new … Continue reading
Cloudless skies, deep blue water, gentle breezes…
… welcome to spring on the west coast of Scotland! We’ve come to an utterly gorgeous holiday house on the Knoydart peninsula, described by The Independent as Britain’s last wilderness, with a group of friends and we’re having a fabulous … Continue reading
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Bookshop Visit: Malvern Book Co-op. ‘There is music in the air…’
Over New Year, we went down to Worcestershire to see family and friends. I love Edinburgh but I miss England sometimes – the rain, the hedgerows, the accents – and every so often I do hanker after returning. We had … Continue reading
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The Year After by Martin Davies and The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson
A period to which I’d never given much thought, and one which is glossed over in the main, is that immediately after the end of World War One. There’s a great deal of writing, both fiction and non-fiction about the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, fiction, Juliet Nicolson, Martin Davies, non-fiction, review
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