by nikkicopleston | Aug 26, 2017 | Blog
When you’re out and about exploring new places, do you find yourself instinctively drawn to a particular sort of landscape? In spite of yourself, do you sense an affinity with the open, flat countryside of the Fens, or the dramatic ranges of the Peak District? I...
by nikkicopleston | Apr 14, 2017 | Blog
That famous quotation from L P Hartley’s ‘The Go Between’ is poignant – but also a bit meaningless. I’m not sure it’s true, either: the past can seem strange to us, looking back, but foreign? And did we do things so very...
by nikkicopleston | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog
The Shame of Innocence is selling well and DI Jeff Lincoln is gathering quite a fan club. But this wasn’t his first adventure. He was bumbling around in Barbury long before he crossed swords with Donal Finnegan. Before he moved into the Old Vicarage, he was...
by nikkicopleston | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog
I’ve known Lynne Blackwood since we were at school together, but then there was a big, big gap – from when she moved away from Salisbury in 1968 to her return to England about 35 years later. In between, she’d had three children and travelled the...
by nikkicopleston | Jan 1, 2015 | Blog
New Year’s Day, 1959. It wasn’t a Bank Holiday in those days, just an ordinary day like any other – except that particular January 1st was the first day in our new home. I’d lived in the Midlands for the first 6 years of my life, but my...