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Novelist (7 books), global nomad currently living in England. Miss the tropics! Annie's Day published November 2025
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October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I don't know about you, but the news around the world is pretty awful these days. If I hadn't written Finding Serenissima, I'd be tempted to pick up a copy and escape to #Venice #Travel #Italy @australianbooks.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @margieinitaly.bsky.social @womenover50travel.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Cape Leeuwin in #WestAustralia one of the "three great capes" of the world named by English navigator Matthew Flinders after the first ship known to have sailed the waters. Pretty damn awesome to stand at the #lighthouse imagination soaring.
September 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Here I am in #Armidale #NSW #Australia - my old stomping ground through seven years at boarding school #NEGS A lot of buildings gone, and a lot of new buildings in their place, but the most striking thing was the same ethos permeates the premises. #schooldays #writing #Fiction
August 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
July 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A few wonderful days in #Madrid with my 14 yr-old granddaughter. #Ballet in any language is fabulous! #travel
July 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Just sometimes we need something beautiful to make us feel better about the world. Our pond did that this morning!
July 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Truman Capote said, “Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.” Amelia, in Finding Serenissima, agrees @bookclubfriends.com @bookclubradio.bsky.social #Books @romanticnovelists.bsky.social @necessaryfiction.com
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June 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Had enough of gloomy news? Pick up a book and go back in time to the jungles of 1950s #Malaya and the #communist uprising. A little #history, a little #love, a lot of #fun #fiction @histnovsoc.bsky.social vineleavespress.myshopify.com/products/hav...
May 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Just in case anyone happens to be around #Ware, #Hertfordshire, on Sunday, do stop by and say hello! #SouthernMaltings #write #read #fiction
May 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Twenty years ago I lived in #EquatorialGuinea but had never heard of the Duchessa d'Aosta incident in Santa Isabel, now #Malabo harbour during the war. Thanks #GilesMilton Fascinating #history #WestAfrica #FernandoPo Well worth the read!
May 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Grab a cappuccino and relax with Amelia as she wanders the labyrinthian canals of #Venice #SIDS #romance #women60 @vineleavespress.bsky.social #Fiction #Novel #writerssky #booksky @rosie-j-potter.bsky.social #lifeafter60
May 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Aren't they gorgeous? Just like the cover of #FindingSerenissima designed by the incomparable #JessicaBell @vineleavespress.bsky.social
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May 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Well, the billboard on the bus shelter might not be in #Venice due to the lack of roads in that canal city, but the lights look pretty! @vineleavespress.bsky.social #WomenLiterature #Fiction #SIDS #secondchances
April 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Bluebells and sunshine in Audley End woods - there is hope!
April 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#SuzanneLeal author of The Watcheful Wife, called #FindingSerenissima "both a refuge and a delight" #TBR #Bookclubs #contemporary #women #widows #parenting #death
April 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Such a help researching maps for #Annie'sDay #Berlin @vineleavespress.bsky.social Bella at work!
April 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Hmmmm, what shall I read now? #cats #reading #books
April 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Thrilled that #FindingSerenissima is now being stocked #Hart'sBooks in #SaffronWalden @vineleavespress.bsky.social as well as #UndercoverBooks on #StCroix @usvi.bsky.social and #BooBooks #Armidale #NSW Amelia is getting around!
April 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Need an escape from #tariffs and #Trump? See #Venice through Amelia's eyes
vineleavespress.myshopify.com/products/fin... #hope #Widow #love #fiction #bookclub #Italy A book of second #chances, the complexities of a long #marriage, regaining #independence
April 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM