Author Jenni Mills - one time presenter, interviewer and producer with BBC Radio 4 - gave a talk about her first foray into the world of novel writing, at a lunchtime talk on Thursday at the Almhouses in Corsham.
The visit was particularly appropriate because the novel, Crow Stone, is set in a slightly altered version of our local area and concerns sinister secrets buried in the ancient stone quarries under Bath.
Mills joined the Bath Spa University Creative Writing MA course while she was writing her thriller, and explained how her year as a student helped her new career.
She treated the audience to a reading from the novel, including an evocative description of the underground mines.
She also revealed her second novel would have another local setting - the village and stone circle of Avebury.
Afterwards Mills answered a host of questions and signed copies of her new book.
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