My new paperback cover has arrived. It’ll be in the shops from September. I think the girl looks suitably trepidacious…

I was so pleased that Black Roses was chosen as part of the Highlights of 2013 in The Times’ Pick of the Summer fiction. It was described as ‘the perfect fusion of history, suspense and high romance….the pace is relentless, the background brilliantly evoked and the sex gorgeously spiced with danger.’  Relaxing, then!

I thought it would be interesting to see some pictures of the sites which appear in Black Roses. To start, here’s a shot of the Ufa studios at Babelsberg, which remains very much as it was, and in now back in business, making blockbuster pictures, such as Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie.