Charlotte Betts

As a student of Fashion Design back in the late sixties, my fellow students and I regularly haunted the halls of the V & A Museum for inspiration. Many years have passed since then and life has taken a different direction but I still find the V & A a wonderful place to research for my writing. 

The decaying grandeur of the abandoned Indian palaces and forts is impossibly romantic. When I walked through the echoing rooms I imagined I could hear the whispers of times long ago. It was this that inspired me to write The Palace of lost Dreams.

Historical novelist, John Jackson, talking about ‘Writing in the Past’.

A pre-release sneak peek of the first chapter of The Palace of Lost Dreams.

One damp and misty day last April I made a visit to Kelmscott Manor, the Cotswold retreat of poet, craftsman and socialist William Morris between 1871 and his death in 1896.