Call Jean Fullerton!

Born into a large East End family, Jean was brought up in the overcrowded streets clustered around the Tower of London. Her Victorian stories shining with authenticity have delighted both readers and critics. Jean’s fifth book, Call Nurse Millie, set in 1940s London, draws on her own experience as a district nurse in East London. […]

Post launch questions

The INCEPTIO launches in the UK and France were terrific, the French one small, intimate, the UK one a grand affair at Waterstones Tunbridge Wells – I loved both. I basked in the enthusiasm, well-wishing and sheer fun for days. People bought the book at the events and afterwards in shedloads and then the reviews […]

Roman dating essentials

With Julius Caesar (He’s the one on the plinth.)

Watching the countdown calendar to the publication day of INCEPTIO reminded me that the first of the month in the Roman system – the Kalends – ended up as our word for measuring the whole thing – calendar.

In my Roma Nova thrillers, I […]