What a surprise and delight it was to be awarded the Bookmark Blairgowrie Festival Silver Bookmark for Book of the Year for The Paris Peacemakers.

Bookmark Blairgowrie is a wonderful festival, so welcoming and with really interesting speakers. I enjoyed my session chatting for an hour with James Robertson all about historical fiction, and the audience seemed to enjoy it too. It was then an unexpected thrill to be awarded this lovely silver bookmark, made by Sarah Cave silversmith, for The Paris Peacemakers.