Poitou – the grain bowl of Europe (Author photo)
In Double Identity, Mel’s surname – des Pittones – is based on the Pictones, a Celtic tribe in ancient Gaul, a tribe that gave its name to Poitou in western France. And her family has been settled in the area for hundreds and hundreds […]
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Double Identity starts a new thriller series featuring Mel, and McCracken, but who are they?
Mélisende des Pittones, known as Mel, 29, daughter of a French father and English mother, just left her French Army job as an intelligence analyst in a special forces team. She’s tall, athletic build, dark blonde shoulder length hair, worn […]
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Having had my trip to ‘Roma Nova’ cancelled in June, I was thirsty for some Roman input. But it’s not easy going on a trip in the middle of a raging world pandemic.
However Saintes, in Charente Maritime, is only two hours by fast autoroute from where I live and still in the green zone […]
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