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"I don’t change the facts to enhance the drama. I think of it the other way round, the drama has got to fit the facts,
and it’s your job as a writer to find the shape in real life."
Hilary Mantel


Dec 12, 2025

Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews


Something new and different and exciting!



I'm delighted to be a contributor to a newly released anthology, Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews,  featuring twenty-five short stories. Mine, "The Manx Charmer," takes place on the Isle of Man in 1777, and features Calybrid Teare, a character from my historical romance trilogy The Islanders Series. These tales cover a range of eras, settings, and styles, and all royalties go to the Scholarship Fund of the Women Fiction Writers Association.


Description: 

Concoctions, treats, brews, and potions from another batch of feisty characters Whether cooking for solace, scrounging for food, concocting medicine, or brewing poisons, the feisty women in these stories will keep you thirsting for more. Twenty-five tales will transport you far afield in time and place: third century Ireland, medieval Europe, twentieth-century Australia. Read your way from a hippie commune to a WW II internment camp in the Philippines; from a Renaissance palace to a Polish village wracked by war, the hills of Appalachia, and a sleepy Ontario town. Mixtures to soothe, heal, and thrall are prepared in these pages, where lovers take revenge, mothers protect their children, and feisty women make choices in a challenging world.


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