When in Helsinki I rarely miss a visit to Stockmann's department store. This shop is a bit of a Selfridges of Helsinki, and you'd be pushed to want something they don't stock. Especially the food hall downstairs is so moorish, I have to be really careful not to buy it all up! (Suitcase issues are … [Read more...]
A Weekend Reader Offer on Coffee and Vodka!
Coffee and Vodka, dubbed 'Nordic Noir Meets Family Saga' at The London Book Fair, is now on a very special and very limited offer. From today until Sunday (26-28 April 2013) you can download my book for only £1.35 (or $1.99).Here are more details and links to where you can download the … [Read more...]
5 Reasons Why an Author Should Visit The London Book Fair
Many people ask me why on earth I attend The London Book Fair. Here are five reasons I always try to make the Fair:1. To learn. During this year's London Book Fair I attended over ten seminars, and although not all of them were right for me, the majority taught me something new. I will write about … [Read more...]
A-Z Challenge: K is for Karelia
My theme: writing and the business of writing"Karelia: a region of NE Europe, formerly Finland but annexed in several stages by the former Soviet Union."Picture from ParadoxIn Finnish history, Karelia is a contentious issue. It's not mentioned in the above quote, (from Collins dictionary 2003) … [Read more...]
What’s in a cover – receive a free book!
I know some of you are patiently waiting the publication of my next novel. Something which I promised would happen very soon after The Englishman came out.Alas, there have been some complications (aren't there always?).Firstly, this next novel is very dear to my heart because it tells the story of a … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas!
Just a little snipped from my childhood…a school Christmas end of term concert from Finland in 1979. Look at those haircuts!Happy Christmas to you all! … [Read more...]
I love this!
I adore old adverts and this one for Finnish coffee from the sixties (or fifties?) takes me right back to my childhood in Tampere. It evokes the smell of the coffee beans my grandmother used to prepare in her wooden grinder. She held the light pine contraption in her ample lap and with a … [Read more...]
Finnish Independence Day Celebrations
My invite to the Ambassador's reception.I was delighted to be invited to the Finnish Ambassador's residence in London's South Kensington last night to celebrate 95 years of Finnish Independence. (I've written a little about our history here.)And what an evening it was! I'm still buzzing … [Read more...]
Alex Gough Erämaa Exhibition
Alex Gough is a talented Finnish/British painter whose work has previously brought me to tears.I first came across Alex through a good friend who's been following his progress for some time. A couple of years ago, she took me to his exhibition at Orion Contemporary Gallery in St James's in … [Read more...]
Travel and special assistance
As luck would have it, at the end of a three week long Nordic holiday attending a wedding in Helsinki, visiting family in Tampere and celebrating midsummer on the Åland Islands, the day the Englishman and I were packing up the cottage to return home to London via Helsinki (a complicated route from … [Read more...]
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