Lucienne Boyce is a historical novelist and women’s suffrage historian. Her first historical novel, To The Fair Land (SilverWood Books), an eighteenth-century thriller set in Bristol and the South Seas, was published in 2012. Her second novel, Bloodie Bones: A Dan Foster Mystery (SilverWood Books, 2015) is the first of the Dan Foster Mysteries and follows the fortunes of a Bow Street Runner who is also an amateur pugilist. Bloodie Bones was winner of the Historical Novel Society Indie Award 2016 and was also a semi finalist for the M M Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction 2016.
In 2013 Lucienne published The Bristol Suffragettes (SilverWood Books), a history of the suffragette movement in Bristol and the West Country. She regularly gives talks and leads walks about women’s suffrage.
Lucienne is on the steering committee of the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network and is also a member of the Society of Authors and the Alliance of Independent Authors. She is a regular presenter on the Silver Sound show for BCfm Radio, a Bristol community radio station.
Lucienne is working on the third Dan Foster Mystery and a biography of a married couple who were involved in the suffragette, socialist and pacifist movements. She was born in Wolverhampton and now lives in Bristol.
Lucienne has recently had an interview with 'Writers' Routine' (the award winning podcast for writers). It talks about Lucienne's love for writing, how she makes it authentic, and how thoroughly she plots a story before she'll tell it. You can find the full interview here.
Lucienne has also reviewed 4 books on suffrage for The Local Historian and they are currently making their journal free. You can download it here.
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