From Lorna's Command Centre

After teaching the piano and raising a family, Lorna exhibited and lectured on antique Chinese textiles in the UK, New York, China and Hong Kong. Following on from that she studied and taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS] in London gaining a doctorate in Chinese history. She now writes historical fiction full time and is a member of the Society of Authors and the RNA – Romantic Novelists’ Association . She enjoys the company of fellow authors at the Belmont Belles & Beaux in Leicester and the RAG – Retford Authors Group. She lives in a very old house with stone walls and a walled garden with a large magnolia tree. Just the place for a historian. She is very fond of rabbits and she often wears a yellow mac.

**Here I am chatting with LK Wilde on YouTube**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcea_mVEmzU

In the video we talk about out novels and our anthors’ lives. There’s much laughter and we have a lot in common. Not least that she lives, and I used to live, on the same street – decades apart! LK Wilde is the author of “Queenie of Norwich” and other historical and contemporary novels.

https://www.lkwilde.com/

Lorna’s Historical Novels

THE COLVILLE SERIES set in Cumberland and the west coast of Canada in the 1850s

“It was Saturday night and Whitehaven was busy entertaining itself. A rogue wind was blowing in from the sea, brisk, cheerless and noisy, seeking warm crevices in which to rest awhile. Despite this, the town was teeming with deckhands just in from Antigua. Men with their caps drawn tight over their ears and their jackets buttoned high were swaying from inn to ale house, seeking excitement.”