Deborah Lawrenson

  Where do works of historical fiction find their starting points? How are those seeds refined into story? What are the gifts and cha...

  There are many true stories within the pages of The Sea Garden , though all are filtered through the distorting mirror of fiction. Th...

To celebrate the paperback publication today of The Sea Garden , I'm taking you to Céreste, a quiet village at the eastern end of the...

I saw this old box of dried lavender at the Friday market in Bonnieux during a flying visit last month, and I post it here as an article ...

"By 1943, the life expectancy of a wireless operator working for the French resistance and the British agents on the ground in Nazi-...

  It's an extraordinary thing, actually to see the tools of the trade of the secret operations that took place in Nazi-occupied Fra...

Seventy years ago today, the American-led liberation of southern France reached the town of Apt. The previous day, the tanks and Jeeps ha...

    The lavender cutting has begun. When the wind catches the fields, warm gusts of scent rise into the air. And when the harvest i...

  Six days until The Sea Garden is published in the United States, and the nerves are kicking in. It's always the same, each time ...

                 ‘Eau-de-vie – flavoured with myrtle,’ said the old woman. ‘Try it!’ She watched intently as Ellie raised ...

  "The war had not yet begun when Marthe Lincel went to the perfume factory for the first time. It was a visit organised by th...

  A shiny new book that opens to reveal an entrancing read...could there be a greater bibliophile treat? In this spirit, Shiny New Book...

  The countdown to publication this summer has begun - June in the US and July in the UK. In America, a limited number of early reading...

  More ferocious storms here at the end of last week, and this was the scene when the rain finally stopped. But the flood water over th...

On the southern coast of mainland France, the Presqu’île de Giens is a ribbon of land dangling into the Mediterranean. At the end of th...

  A very exciting parcel from New York this week...some early copies of The Sea Garden. Known as "bound galleys", these are...

Thank you all so much for your fantastic reactions to the US cover! There are more over on the facebook page , and your thoughts really ...

I think it's safe to show you this now...in the past week several pre-publication sites have uploaded the US cover of The Sea Garden ...

  A quiet week, once again immersed in The Sea Garden . The US proofs arrived, the final stage before the manuscript becomes a bound bo...