Dispatches from Alliott Country

By Catherine Alliott
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The Perfect Cornish Summer

Catherine Alliott: the best-selling author on the perfect Cornish Summer

Combining summer with love, a new novel by best-selling author Catherine Alliott evokes the perfect summer romance

Alliott Family Holiday – Tuscany

Alliott Family Holiday – Tuscany

With the last of the summer days long gone, I found an article I’d written before our annual August family holiday in Tuscany – thought I would share happy memories. “And so the summer holiday looms. A week at the end of August, the annual jaunt to the South of France...

Chatting with Catherine about Writing

Chatting with Catherine about Writing

Ask 100 writers what the root of their inspiration is and, most likely, they’ll all reference something different. For bestselling author Catherine Alliott, the basis for her craft is simple: ‘Pastoral landscapes and country living in Hertfordshire.’
Smiling, she...

At Home with Catherine

At Home with Catherine

A behind the scenes conversation with the bestselling author - Catherine Alliott What is your earliest reading memory? Well, I’m hoping I read long before this but my first actual memory is lying face down on the window seat in the dining room reading The Secret Seven...

How We Met: Catherine Alliott & Sophie Kinsella

How We Met: Catherine Alliott & Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella A former financial journalist, Kinsella (right in picture) wrote several novels under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, before adopting the pen name Kinsella for her bestselling 'Shopaholic' series, adapted into the film 'Confessions of a Shopaholic',...