By Joan Whicher It was Paris 1962 and I was visiting my boyfriend who would later become my husband. He was staying at his aunt’s flat in Boulogne sur Seine, while working as an intern at a French insurance company in the centre of Paris. The previous year he’d attended a business studies course inContinue reading “A JOURNEY”
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Audio Book
An audio book version of State of Treason is now available. The audio book is narrated by Edward Gist. “An excellent tale told in an engaging way. Looking forward to the next instalment.” Amazon review
Blog Tour Host
In 2022 this website will be acting as host for blog tours organised by the Coffee Pot Book Club The Coffee Pot Book Club, founded in 2015 by award-winning blogger and international best-selling author, Mary Anne Yarde, has been helping authors market their books with blog tours. Watch this space!
SPARKS OF LIFE
By Patricia Griffin Anybody else out there who writes to reflect on and to keep order in their world as it is seen and felt? Well, I’m in your club too. Writing every day about the big things and the little things and sometimes in the process the small becomes the significant and the majorContinue reading “SPARKS OF LIFE”
FROM MET POLICE TO CHILDREN’S AUTHOR
By Lesley Cordell Hi Fraser and all Feed My Reads readers My name is Lesley Cordell. I’m sixty-two years old. Married with two grown up daughters by marriage and five grandchildren with another one on the way – all things being well! I joined the Metropolitan Police in December 1977 one of the first intakeContinue reading “FROM MET POLICE TO CHILDREN’S AUTHOR”
ORFORD
By Joan Whicher Orford in Suffolk is where we would spend a long weekend in August for many years. We’d normally arrive by way of Lavenham and Woodbridge. This was something of a ritual and was looked forward to hugely, as it was, during those years the sum total of our annual holiday, short butContinue reading “ORFORD”
ELIZABETHAN ADVENTURERS AND SHIP NAVIGATION
My first novel, State of Treason was half written when my writing veered away from its planned structure and took off in an unexpected direction. More than a minor diversion, I had to halt writing and research the background to this new sub-plot. I shouldn’t have been surprised. The book was an Elizabethan thriller set inContinue reading “ELIZABETHAN ADVENTURERS AND SHIP NAVIGATION”
WRITING HISTORICAL FICTION – INSPIRATION OR PLANNING
Inspiration seems so much more creative and worthy than the structured and methodical act of planning, and it’s tempting to emphasise the former in any success as a writer I might enjoy. But looking back, there is no doubt that writing the William Constable historical thrillers was more the result of planning over years thanContinue reading “WRITING HISTORICAL FICTION – INSPIRATION OR PLANNING”
A HOLIDAY MEMORY
We’ve been practising our French, so it’s a minor disappointment when the owner of the gîte, Mr Brouillard, speaks perfect English. Our directions have taken us to the ‘manoir’, which turns out to be a castle. This is no ordinary pile of medieval rubble, but an entire fairy castle with slender turrets, topped with pantileContinue reading “A HOLIDAY MEMORY”
ERASMUS
I am ushered into the orangery to find Sir George and a man, who I take to be the artist, in deep conversation. I hold back in the doorway, flex my shoulders, bow my legs and circle my ankles to relieve the unfamiliar closeness of the clothes I am made to wear. They chafe andContinue reading “ERASMUS”