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Fil Reid

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AWARD-WINNING author, Fil Reid's first novel won a GOLD medal at the Readers' Favorites Awards in 2022.

Fil lives in Cornwall with her extremely supportive husband and where she's only minutes from the sea. She has a rescue dog from Romania called Bella.

She writes historical fiction and has a six book time travel series, GUINEVERE, out in which the heroine is a 21st-century girl kidnapped back to the Dark Ages to become King Arthur's Queen Guinevere. Lots of fun plot twists mixed in with some of the well-known and also the lesser known legends.

Her poor husband mostly sees the back of her head as she sits at the computer writing.
When she's not writing (which she does pretty much all of the time) she likes to walk the dog, visit sites of histo
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Here I am, sitting at my computer with the cat nearly resident on TOP of the keyboard and purring loudly in my ear. She’s probably better at technical stuff than I am. She certainly thinks she is, as she constantly tries to edit my work with her neat little pussycat paws. Her form of touchtyping is to be avoided at all costs, though. I’ve had beta readers say to me, ‘why is there ‘xk;aig’ in the m Read more of this blog post »
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Published on January 19, 2023 04:16 Tags: dark-ages, guinevere, historical-romance, history, king-arthur, merlin, the-dragon-ring, time-travel, timeslip
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"I love Fil Reid's writing! This is the best Lyon's Den story I've ever read. Georgiana is an heiress who finds herself in a predicament and needs to get married quickly. She enlists the help of Mrs. Dove-Lyon, who owns a gaming establishment. Mrs Dov" Read more of this review »
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A slightly different style dystopian novel with religion at its heart. I've read other books by Dorothy Robey before and know she likes to put her religion centre stage. This book has a different flavour to her other books though and the religion com ...more
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“He was a walking history lesson, and I wanted to learn.”
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“I was lost, unreachable in a time long forgotten, with people who'd been dry bones for hundreds of years.”
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“The smell of lavender on his clothing was strong. I'd read once somewhere that it repelled lice and fleas.”
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