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Diana Jackson

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MISSING Past and Present

  • One Step Nearer Publication ~ A New Year ~ A New Beginning

    Hi folks. Just a brief update The manuscript for my new novel is completed, edited, formatted and ready to go. The cover is being designed as I write this blog and so the aim is that it will be released in January 2027. Although this book is the sequel to MISSING Past and Present, both…

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  • Glasgow Book Club

    A recent very convincing email arrived in my inbox: Julia writes “Hello Diana Jackson, At The Glasgow Book Club, we often find ourselves talking about stories that linger long after the last page, the ones that mix emotion, history, and the unexpected in ways that keep readers thinking. Missing, Past and Present became part of…

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  • Music that’s shaped my life (3) ~ and my writing

    Resilience, survival and determination have been the backbone of my life and are reflected in my writing too. Believing in deep reciprocal love too. Harriet in Riduna survived, just as I did. Gloria Gaynor’s song became an anthem for many of us and if anyone embodies resilience and survival in my writing, it is Dot…

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  • 5 star Review for MISSING Past and Present

    Here is a reflection on my last novel, released at the start of lock-down. I’m still Chuffed by this 5 star review on Untold Reads for ‘MISSING Past and Present’. A few year’s later and I wonder why it hasn’t fared so well as my first in the series ‘MURDER Now and Then’. A reader…

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  • My Review of 2024 in my Writing Life

    On the Positive Side On the Negative Side Nothing else, which is fantastic!

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  • A Song of an Idea Springing from Missing Past and Present

    I’d love someone to put this song to music for me. Any offers? This looks like my husband’s guitar!

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  • 5 star Review from UntoldReads.com!

    Happy New Year to you all! My first resolution is to finish the sequel to MISSING Past and Present and what better encouragement for me to do so is to receive such an accolade from UntoldReads.com: “A literary gem that flawlessly combines beauty, complexity and profound depth of life, Diana Jackson’s ‘Missing Past and Present’ is narrated…

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  • Virtual tour around Canbury Village ~ the second imaginary location for my latest novel

    Canbury village featured a great deal in MISSING Past and Present, both in the ‘Present’ story of Dot, who wandered homeless around the lanes surrounding Canbury village, only two miles walk from Drumford town centre. The walk from the town took Dot over the River Ree, through a spinney, past some allotments where Dot found…

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