Ancasta
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Back on Tour ~ I’m back on the road for two booksigning events in June
My booksigning tour to celebrate three centenaries in my second novel ‘Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home’ continues this June with two venues: SUNDAY 23RD JUNE ~ HAYNES 100 BEDFORDSHIRE SUNDAY 16TH JUNE ~ WOBURN ABBEY BEDFORDSHIRE, CLASSIC CAR DAY If you’ve followed me on the journey into writing so far you will know that I…
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Being Compared to a Best Seller ~ A Double Edged Sword
In the last few months I’ve joined The Sarnia literacy Society on Facebook and have enjoyed talking about such books as Ebenezer le Page, a delightful story written like memoirs of an elderly gentleman and his life on Guernsey. Apart from getting lost occasionally in a plethora of friends and relations, I found the book…
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Virtual Tour of the Solent and Beyond~No 13~Over the English Channel to France in the Great War
Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home is set between 1910 and 1920 and so the members of the Newton family see many facets of World War One; the life changing experiences of the women at home in Woolston as Harriet opens her home for convalescent soldiers; the marked effect on their children and Jane’s world at…
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A Touching Review ~ Don’t forget to let authors know what you think!!
I received a timely email at the weekend and it gave me a bit of a confidence boost at a time when work has been so difficult that I’ve found it hard to concentrate on my writing. You know the times, when you feel so stressed that your brain feels befuddled and the usual garden…
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Virtual Tour Beyond the Solent no12 ~ Guernsey ~ The Isle of Flowers
After pausing on Alderney I continue my journey to significant places features in the Riduna series and Guernsey features in both Riduna and in Ancasta Guide me Swiftly Home. In fact I knew of Guernsey long before Alderney and my first trip to Guernsey was at the age of seven.( I don’t count the visit when I…
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My Real Tour Continues ~ BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Waterstones St Neots
Two weeks ago I was asked by the manager of Waterstones St Neots to drop by and it was a lovely sunny Market Day. The place was buzzing with life and I thought ‘what a nice place!’ On Saturday I left home in sleety snow. It was cold and not a day to be out…
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Virtual Tour beyond the Solent no 11 ~ Alderney and Competition!!!
As most people who know me realise, Alderney is my most favourite place in the world and it’s where my story began. The reason my virtual tour goes straight from Calshot to Alderney is because it is the closest Channel Island to the mainland, and the closest to France too! The easiest way to get…