Written in 2019 this is a biography of Shelagh Delaney the author of "A Taste of Honey" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taste-Honey-Modern-Plays/dp/0413316807/ "A Taste of Honey" play by Shelagh Delaney Delaney wrote "A Taste of Honey" when she was 19, and it premiered on stage in London in 1958. It was one of the first plays to be written… Continue reading Tastes of Honey: the Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution – Selina Todd
Review of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar written in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
Liverpool 1854 on the quayside - "'Gather round, gather round all. My name is Billy Botcher. Second Mate on the Princess Rose, It's my job to welcome you today. They've chosen me because I've got such a loud voice. I've been with the Hudson's Bay Company since I was fifteen. I'm an Orcadian by birth… Continue reading It’s 1854, meet Orcadian Billy Botcher.
Prepare to be totally engrossed in this novel. It's one of those books you should begin in the morning and cancel all engagements for because you're not going to want to put it down. If you don't begin reading it until later in the day you'll be up way past your bedtime to see how… Continue reading LK Wilde – “Queenie of Norwich” Book Review:
In Whitehaven in 1853, the year before the setting of my novel "New Beginnings on Vancouver Island", the Clerk to the Guardians, Christopher Hodgkin issued a proclamation to parents and their guardians that all children must be vaccinated BY ORDER against Cow Pox. Medical practitioners were authorised to vaccinate all persons resident within the appointed… Continue reading Compulsory Cow Pox Vaccination in 1853
My daughter asked me recently how I came up with the names for the characters in my books. Choosing them is actually something I really enjoy and I have several ways of doing it. Sometimes I just have it to hand and that's true of Stag in "New Beginnings on Vancouver Island". https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1913719383/ My hero was… Continue reading How to avoid C. Spray – getting your names right.
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