Victoria Connelly's Blog

One More Page Before I Kiss You is available in paperback and ebook.

You can order the paperback from your local independent bookshop, from Amazon, or direct from the printers (see links below).

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Introvert Abroad is now available in paperback direct from the printers in both the UK and USA.

Here are my favourite reads of 2024:
The Cypress Maze by Fiona Valpy
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
Travelling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor

These next three are audio books but they are also available as ebook/paperback:
My Midsummer Morning by Alastair Humphreys (audio book read by the author)
A New World by Eckhart Tolle (audio book read by the author)
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho (audio book read by Jeremy Irons)

I’ve been enjoying some fabulous novels recently:

Fiona Valpy’s The Sky Beneath Us

Victoria Hislop’s The Figurine

Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait

Each of these stories is deeply immersive, taking the reader on a journey through time and place. Highly recommended!

You might also enjoy these books of mine that are currently on offer for a limited time:

The House in the Clouds – UK only offer – 99p

The Way to the Sea – UK offer – £1.99 usually 3.99

Last week, we visited St Mary’s Church in Radnage, hidden in a secluded Buckinghamshire valley. It was used as the main setting in the 1987 film adaptation of J L Carr’s novella, A Month in the Country, starring Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh. It’s one of my favourite films and it was a true delight to find this gem of a place.

Set in 1920, A Month in the Country is about Tom Birkin who arrives at the church at Oxgodby to uncover a medieval wall painting. He meets archaeologist, Charl...

After fifteen years of not travelling abroad and not even having a valid passport, I suddenly got the travel bug and, this year, I’ve been fortunate to see three new cities (Amsterdam, Bruges and Ghent) and three beautiful Mediterranean islands (Sicily, Crete and Santorini). It’s been quite an adventure!

My trip to Crete was especially memorable because it was my first ever solo trip abroad, but I didn’t feel like I was alone because I had two very good companions with me: Miss Read and A...

It’s now well and truly spooky season here in the UK. The clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in and it’s the perfect time to curl up with a ghost story. Did you know I have three ghostly books published now? And, in case you’ve missed them in the past, they’re all in a special price promo at the mo. 99p each in the UK and 99c each in the USA, so do check them out if you need something to curl up with on these long dark nights. But hurry, this offer is for a limited time only.

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I’m very pleased to say that The Garden at Old Thatch is published today. It is available in ebook and paperback via the links below or your local bookshop.

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As the nights draw in and the temperature plummets, it’s the perfect time to cosy up with a good book, and I’m delighted to have a new Christmas novella out. The Wrong Ghost is a fun, festive tale set deep in the heart of the snowy Suffolk countryside. It was enormous fun to research and write and there’s plenty of history and mystery! I do hope you enjoy it.

There are few things I enjoy more than a visit to a garden, and few books I love more than those by the writer Dora Saint who wrote as Miss Read. So the opportunity to marry these two passions was just too hard to resist.

Published in 1993, Farewell to Fairacre was the penultimate book in the beloved Fairacre series. Miss Read is invited to an evening concert at Rousham House by John Jenkins. Alas, it is dusk when they arrive and the garden is in darkness, but the two of them...