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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.
Category Archives: Life
Friday Favourites….
A round-up of some of the blog posts, articles and sites that have intrigued and informed me this week….. Loved this blog post on One Bunting Away – even I, whose craft projects are usually closer to occupational therapy than … Continue reading
Posted in Places to go, Recent links I've loved
Tagged baking, craft, writing, yarn
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Home Exchanging – I’ll swap you mine if you swap yours
After deciding that we would try home exchanging and choosing a company to register with (here’s my blog post about that), it was time to put our own listing together and start arranging our swaps. There is masses of information … Continue reading
Home Exchanging – travel not tourism
You love your home so it follows that other people would love your home – right? And imagine that by letting other people stay in your home you could be reading in their lavender-scented Provencal garden; lounging by their Californian … Continue reading
Josephine Pullein Thompson on Last Word, Radio 4
After Josephine passed away a couple of weeks ago it was lovely to hear that her life was to be commemorated by Last Word, Radio 4’s obituary programme. I was asked about my memories of her and about her writing … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts
Tagged Fidra Books, Josephine Pullein Thompson, pony books
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What are the Stockbridge Colonies?
We live in the Stockbridge Colonies, a delightful area with interesting orgins and characteristics. People often ask about the name and about how they came to be – in a city centre best known for its cliff-like terraces of Georgian … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Tagged Colonies, Edinburgh, home, Stockbridge
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