About

Jane started her career in print journalism before becoming a producer for BBC Radio 4, working on The World at One, PM and Woman’s Hour. She has written six novels, starting with the Netherwood trilogy, which was inspired by her own family’s coal-mining roots in South Yorkshire. The subsequent three books are all contemporary novels; This Much Is True, Mix Tape and Waiting for Sunshine. The highly-acclaimed Mix Tape has been translated into seven languages and was recently adapted for television into a brilliantly successful four-part drama on BBC2 and iPlayer. Waiting For Sunshine, her most recent novel, was described by the Daily Mail as ‘superbly written and compellingly original’.

Brian has worked in journalism for almost 40 years and is a past winner of a prestigious What The Papers Say award. He has written extensively for many national newspapers including the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail, where he has been chief film critic since 2013. He has written eight non-fiction books, one of which was adapted for the stage (and toured nationally in 2010). Another, about the British on holiday, won the Travel Book of the Year award. Brian is also currently co-writing a feature-film screenplay.

We are around an hour’s drive from Cheltenham, an hour and a half from Birmingham and 35 minutes from Junction 7 of the M5.

We are also near Ludlow, Hay-on-Wye and Malvern if you wanted to extend your stay within the most glorious countryside.