I will be attending Kinghorn Country Market this Saturday between 10 am and 12 noon, alongside authors Hamish Brown and Roderick Hart. We will be supporting Kinghorn in Bloom, chatting and signing books.
Category Archives: Fife
Come and Say Hello this Saturday!
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Introducing Friend and Fellow Author Hamish Brown
Author Hamish Brown has joined Eventispress for possibly his last book, at nearly 90 years of age. Having no access to the internet, a PC or a mobile phone, he was at a loss as to what to do with his completed manuscript when Sandstone Press closed as a publishing company last year ( they sell their back copies through other platforms now) Eventispress stepped in and offered to publish his new book and it is now for sale in all the Waterstones in Scotland.
Hamish Brown’s achievements and some interesting facts about him:
- Hamish has published over 40 books (including updating his popular Fife Coastal Path by Birlinn)
- Hamish has climbed all the Munros in the UK (the first one to climb them all in one go, only using public transport or foot between them.)
- Hamish has led expeditions in Morocco
- Hamish was born in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
- Hamish has spent most of his life living in Fife.
- Hamish must have planted thousands of snowdrops over a period of over 40 years!
I think he is an amazing man and I am grateful to be his friend.
Here’s his latest book:
I will be posting some Adventures with Hamish in the summer.
Filed under Book reading, Fife, Guest author, Scotland, Scottish authors
The Private Life of Spies ~ The Missing Years
Recently I posted a link to one of my blog posts on my personal Facebook Page, rather than my author Facebook page. Why? because it was about my own life in a series and of family history posts but it was personal too:
It prompted the comments:
A friend: “Why are there no photos of you between 16yrs and 50 yrs?
Another friend replied: “Diana let slip over a glass of red wine once, that she was a spy!’
This made me laugh, especially as Alexander Mc Call’s Private Life of Spies was sat on my bedside table, only just opened. (I will review it next week, when I’ve read the final short story, which has been a much needed light interlude, I must say!)
And so I searched old photos, to come up with ones in the in between years:
I then planned some trips to far flung places; teaching in Sri Lanka, visiting family in Australia and then on to the USA where my niece was studying. (Do you like the Pretty Woman pose in LA?) I grew my hair longer for these trips, so that I could tie it back:
My next far flung adventure was to South America with my niece:
My family in Australia say that I go on adventures when I have a crisis in my life!
At the end of my forties, getting married changed my world for the better, except that contentment made me put on weight, which I’ve battled with ever since.
Here’s a special photo of of one of my last days in Bedfordshire before heading north to Fife:
Happy memories of a great bunch of colleagues, more like one big happy family really, until we were broken up by cut backs and redundancies.
Hence:
The Healing Paths of Fife ~ A Fantasy Memoir
Currently sold in aid of The Kirkcaldy Foodbank. Over £750 profits donated to local charities so far.
Yes, I have thought of writing a spy novella inspired by a trip to Cuba, but I’ve never been a spy. With an author it’s all in the mind, you see!
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