In The Beginning..The Water Doctor’s Daughter’s When I was writing my true crime book, The Water Doctor’s Daughters, I had a moment of panic and said to my husband Rob, ‘Oh dear, what if someone publishes this one day and I have to give talks about it?’
Read more →Have just spent a wonderful but busy few days in Great Malvern and Worcester finalizing arrangements for the launch of the Water Doctor’s Daughters on March 23rd. It’s to be held at 2.00pm in the spacious Morgan Bar at Malvern’s historic Foley Arms Hotel. I will be
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In my non-fiction book, The Water Doctor’s Daughters, Queen Victoria is an important figure. BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT- QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER FRENCH DRESSER Early in 1842, Victoria employed a well educated young Frenchwoman as one of her wardrobe mistresses. Célestine Doudet was born in Rouen on June
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I’m almost beyond joking about the dreadful Coronavirus, but this image did make me smile, albeit a very wry smile. The following piece will explain why. MISGUIDED MUSICAL AMBITION After watching too many episodes of Australia’s Got Talent, my associate Editor Des decided he wanted to become
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Hello from Editor Des Oh dear, I had to put on my little rain hat and gumboots for the Rhodo Festival…and it was their big Diamond Jubilee one too, just like the Queen of England is celebrating. I seem to remember it has rained on most
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Note from Editor Des’ guardian Pauline Conolly…..As you will see at the bottom of the story, fire has swept through the area he wrote about. He is very sad, as we all are. A Double Bunger Day Out, by Editor Des Hello down there! Here’s my first
Read more →I chose this story because Gnome is now a close neighbour of mine. He played a special part in Pauline’s book, All Along the River. Here is a little piece from the manuscript: ‘There was a touch of the surreal about the outdoor cafe we visited
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Daisy Spedden of Orange County, New York State survived the sinking of the great liner with her husband Frederic and their only child Douglas, then six years old. In 1913 Mrs Spedden wrote the story of their escape as a Christmas gift for Douglas, told through the
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