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Wendy Percival
Apr 5, 20191 min read
Therapeutic Cornwall
By the time this post whooshes its way on to the the World Wide Web, I’ll be away recharging my batteries on the Cornish coast. In the...
Wendy Percival
Jan 15, 20194 min read
Barefoot on the Cobbles, by Janet Few
I'm delighted to welcome author and genealogist Janet Few to the Bite-size blog today! I interviewed Janet on my Family History Secrets...
Wendy Percival
Jan 2, 20192 min read
Happy New Year!
I hope you've recovered from all your festivities and are looking forward to the New Year. So, I have to ask the inevitable question –...
Wendy Percival
Dec 21, 20182 min read
Books at Christmas
This week saw the 175th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens's classic seasonal story, A Christmas Carol. My copy of this...
Wendy Percival
Dec 6, 20182 min read
Mrs McDougall & the legacy of #WW1
I wrote recently about a WW1 legacy within my own family - the injuries my great uncle Tom sustained which dogged him for the rest of his...
Wendy Percival
Nov 15, 20181 min read
D-I-Y whodunnit
While staying on the Isle of Wight last weekend, I came across this book on the second-hand bookshelves at Godshill church. It was...
Wendy Percival
Oct 31, 20183 min read
A witchery post for Halloween
Last week I paid a visit to The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle (for writing research purposes - but more on that another...
Wendy Percival
Oct 23, 20182 min read
Meeting author Kate Ellis
Our local library was lucky enough recently to have a visit by crime fiction author, Kate Ellis. Her Wesley Peterson series is set in...
Wendy Percival
Oct 6, 20182 min read
#WW2 Secrets of the Scilly Isles
This blog has fallen silent recently as I've been away holidaying on Tresco, one of the islands of the beautiful Isles of Scilly. I...
Wendy Percival
Aug 30, 20182 min read
A genealogy-lit fest!
There's a saying amongst authors, often aimed at new writers, "write what you like to read". So, as well as being an author of genealogy...
Wendy Percival
Aug 27, 20181 min read
The secrets of our bookshelves
I recently took up the challenge to post a photograph on Facebook of the cover of a favourite book each day for 7 days. As the books on...
Wendy Percival
Aug 15, 20182 min read
Visiting the scene of the crime
Today is the anniversary of the tragic Lynmouth flood disaster in August 1952 when a giant wall of water rushed down the steep river...
Wendy Percival
Jul 6, 20182 min read
A book, a film, a Cornish beach
A few years ago we were staying in Marazion, not far from Penzance where I’d been on a writer’s panel at the Penzance Literary Festival....
Wendy Percival
Jun 28, 20182 min read
Murder in the Lake District
It's a while since I've visited the Lake District but it remains a favourite location. The photograph on the left is of Blea Tarn looking...
Wendy Percival
Jun 25, 20181 min read
Murder-mystery on Hartland's coast
When I wrote the second Esme Quentin mystery, The Indelible Stain, I'd already decided where it would be set. The rugged coastline of...
Wendy Percival
Jun 19, 20182 min read
A compelling #WW2 read
I’ve had Kathryn Gauci’s book, Conspiracy of Lies, on my TBR list for a while. After researching WW2’s Special Operations Executives for...
Wendy Percival
Jun 17, 20182 min read
Secrets and crime - a #genealogy #mystery writer's bread and butter!
As any family historian will agree, researching your ancestors is rather like being a detective following a trail of evidence to get to...
Wendy Percival
Jun 1, 20181 min read
An unusual take on a Whodunnit
I've always loved Anthony Horowitz's TV series Foyles War, but I'd never read any of his novels. So I was keen to read Magpie Murders...
Wendy Percival
Mar 18, 20181 min read
The new Bite-size blog
I've been writing my Family History Secrets blog for well over four years now and have made some fascinating, occasionally poignant,...