Blog - Helen Callaghan

Everything Is Lies – here it is…!

October 11, 2017April 22, 2018 Blog, Recent Books, Everything Is Lies, Fiction, News, Press

Drumroll please… So here’s the beautiful new cover to my next book, Everything Is Lies, which is out now in hardback and digital! I am so excited about this, I cannot tell you. It was

Dear Amy makes list of Airtours Top books to read on holiday 2017

May 6, 2017April 22, 2018 Blog, Recent Books, Dear Amy, News, Press, Reviews, Travel

I’m delighted to announce that Dear Amy has been selected as one of Airtours top books to read on holiday for 2017! I’m in good company, the list including such luminaries as Kit de Waal

The Broomway: the Most Dangerous Road in Britain

September 1, 2015August 18, 2016 Blog, Recent Travel, Weird

I recently had the chance to walk the Broomway, a public byway six miles long that connects the foreshore at Maplin Sands to Foulness Island when the tide is out. When the tide is in, the way

This is Boring: Boring V at the Conway Hall

May 15, 2015August 18, 2016 Blog, Recent Events, Random, Weird

For the second year in a row, I went to the Boring conference: The Boring Conference is a celebration of the minutiae of the mundane. Last year, speakers discussed things like why all national anthems

Face to face with Jane Eyre

March 25, 2015August 18, 2016 Blog, Recent Books, Events, Fiction, History, Random

Had a lovely day – I had decided yesterday to pitch up at the Folio Prize Festival at the British Library. I was late and missed most of the first panel, so I lunched vaguely and turned up for the first

Tidings from London

February 27, 2015August 21, 2016 Blog, Recent Books, Dear Amy, News

So, rather wonderfully, Michael Joseph are publishing Dear Amy in Spring 2016. Michael Joseph are an imprint of Penguin Books I must say that I met a load of cool people during the auction, but I was blown

The Chronophage – the Eater of Time

February 15, 2015August 21, 2016 Blog, Recent, Video Cambridge, Dear Amy, History, Random, Research, Weird

One of the Cambridge landmarks that features in the latest book is the Corpus Clock. The clock is this large, imposing creation set into the corner of Corpus Christi College where Trumpington Street and Bene’t Street meet.

Adventures in Cocktails: Harry’s Bar in Venice

February 6, 2015August 19, 2016 Blog, Recent Cookery, Italy, Random, Research, Travel, Venice

Harry’s Bar is famous for its dry martini, and speaking as an afficianado of dry martinis, this seemed the perfect destination for me that first night in the city. I had booked a weekend on the

Visiting Felbrigg Hall

January 29, 2015August 21, 2016 Blog, Recent Dear Amy, Fiction, History, Research, Travel

One of the things that I did this year, while writing Dear Amy, was get out to visit some country houses. One of these was Felbrigg Hall. At the centre of the book is a

Medieval Cookery: Roo Broth

November 6, 2014August 21, 2016 Blog, Recent Cookery, History, Research

Roo broth – I know, right? What is it, some kind of medieval kangaroo soup? Well, no. Roo broth is more of a bruet – a kind of thickly sauced meat dish – a bit

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