Laura Madeleine

Author

  • About Laura
    • Bio
    • Press Kits
  • Books
    • An Echo of Scandal
    • The Secrets Between Us
    • Where the Wild Cherries Grow
    • The Confectioner’s Tale
    • Signed Copies
  • Lili Hayward
    • The Cat of Yule Cottage
  • Blog
  • Other Writing
  • Free Short Story
  • Breakfast Martini Cake

    It’s orange season! And I love it. My local greengrocer is selling HUGE navel oranges 4 for £1, blood oranges (my favourite) are back, and jars of marmalade are appearing in my vicinity with startling regularity. Sadly, I’m not a marmalade fan. Something about the combination of sugar and bitterness just doesn’t work for me, […]

    lauramadeleine

    January 20, 2020
    Recipes
    cake, cocktail, Cointreau, marmalade, martini, orange, recipe, seasonal
  • At the Sauce Podcast

    I was delighted to be a guest on episode 35 of At the Sauce; a brilliant food and drink themed podcast based here in Bristol. It was a joy to talk to Alex and Karis, especially knowing they’d recently interviewed one of my favourite food writers, Bee Wilson. Check out the episode below. You can […]

    lauramadeleine

    January 6, 2020
    Interviews, Writing
    at the sauce, food, interview, memories, podcast, Writing
  • Short Story: The Unravelling of Walter Sinos

    Getting 2020 off to a pretty flying start, I’m delighted to say that literary journal Short Fiction chose my short story, “The Unravelling of Walter Sinos” for their January Feature. “He was unremarkable, an elderly man in a greatcoat worn to skeleton threads, and a pair of leather shoes that creaked with newness. He wore […]

    lauramadeleine

    January 4, 2020
    Writing
    david toop, iannis xenakis, journal, literary, music, musique concrete, publication, short fiction, short story, walter sinos
  • Blackberry, Bay and Hazelnut Galette

    I’ve been obsessed with blackberry and bay ever since reading about it in Bee Wilson’s wonderful article about jam for the Financial Times. There, she wrote about London Borough of Jam in Hackey, where owner Lillie O’Brien makes a blackberry and bay jam that is “dark, rich and full of back-to-school autumnal promise”. It was […]

    lauramadeleine

    December 11, 2019
    Recipes
    bay, blackberry, cake recipe, easy recipes, food, fruit galette, galette, jam, recipe, vegan
  • Talking Food With… Katy Moran

    In my Talking Food series I’ll be featuring short interviews with authors, chefs, cooks, historians and food writers about their experiences of food, from memories to favourite recipes. Today, I’d like to introduce as my guest author Katy Moran. Katy is a former book editor who now lives in Shropshire with her husband and three […]

    lauramadeleine

    November 15, 2019
    Interviews, Writing
    author, Cornwall, food in fiction, georgette heyer, interview, katy moran, Regency, Research, talking food, the wolves of willoughby chase, wicked by design
  • Halwa Carrot Cake

    I came up with this cake a few years ago for a friend from Pakistan who said he was missing carrot halwa (gajar ka halwa), and who also loves carrot cake. So, for his birthday I decided to try and combine the two… After a few test runs, and a lot of texting my friend […]

    lauramadeleine

    November 6, 2019
    Recipes
    baking, birthday cake, cake recipe, carrot cake, gajar ka halwa, halwa, recipe
  • Talking Food With… Lucy Hounsom

    In my Talking Food series I’ll be featuring short interviews with authors, chefs, cooks, historians and food writers about their experiences of food, from memories to favourite recipes. Today, I’d like to introduce as my guest author Lucy Hounsom. Lucy is the author of The Worldmaker Trilogy. Her first book, STARBORN, was shortlisted in the […]

    lauramadeleine

    October 23, 2019
    Interviews, Writing
    author, fantasy, food, food in fiction, food writing, interview, Lucy Hounsom, Q&A, Sistersong, Starborn, talking food
  • Blackberry Madeleines

    Autumn is now officially here; the tomatoes have turned orange on brittle stems, the courgettes are finally ending their reign, and now is the time for golden quinces, autumn apples, and a few last, late blackberries clinging to brambles. It was when we were on our way home, the sun sinking low and golden, that […]

    lauramadeleine

    October 9, 2019
    Recipes, Writing
    autumn, baking, blackberries, blackberry, cake recipe, fall, madeleines, Proust, recipe, seasonal, taste
  • Fig Cake with Fig Leaf Cream

    In Tangier, at the very edge of the casbah overlooking the strait, is a house called Dar Zero. An old property, with white, crenelated walls, this is where Samuel Pepys lived in 1683, during the English occupation of Tangier (1661-1684), when he was employed as a secretary to George Legge, Lord Dartmouth, who had been […]

    lauramadeleine

    September 30, 2019
    Recipes, Writing
    author, baking, books, cake, cake recipe, fig, fig leaf, food, historical fiction, historical food, history, recipe, seasonal, tangier
  • A 1978 Playlist

    After several requests, I’m delighted to share the 1978 playlist we put together for the launch party of An Echo of Scandal last week. I’m a firm believer in immersive research, and music is a huge part of that for me. My job is made all the easier when the era in question is filled […]

    lauramadeleine

    September 24, 2019
    Research, Travel, Writing
    1970s, 1978, An Echo of Scandal, laura madeleine, music, playlist, Research
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