Flora Sandes – Birth date- 22nd January

I was fascinated when I first read about Flora Sandes, an English woman who became a soldier in the Serbian army during the First World War. She was 38 when the war began.It seems she had always wanted to be a boy, had wanted to fight when war was declared but had no...

Hanging on!

I have been writing a second novel for about 4 years. This has coincided the final draft and editing of A Time for Peace. I hoped that when the first novel was published, I would have more time and energy to complete this new one. Sadly, not! The first draft was...

Research and writing

I have been struggling for several weeks to describe how I researched A Time for Peace. As I explained in a previous blog the novel wasn’t written in one long sitting followed by careful reworking to ensure I told the story in the most effective way. Sadly, I...

Warwick Words History Festival

  There is more to being published than I realised. Initially I thought it was a ‘good thing’ that Helen Meeke agreed to offer me a part in Warwick’s new look history festival at the Lord Leycester hospital. Having been Warwick’s Poet...