Short Story Competition
New writers out there might be interested in the Mystery Women’s short story. It’s open to unpublished writers only and the closing date is 15 March. Go to the Mystery Women’s web-site at Mystery Women.freeserve.co.uk for further details.There’ll be a proper blog later in the week. Bye for now.
Historical novels
I am not generally a fan of historical novels, largely I think because I am an historian myself. I prefer the line between fact and fiction to be clear-cut. I really can scarcely bear to read novels set in my own period, the nineteenth century, because they so rarely seem to ring true. The way […]
Maidens’ Trip
I have been on the look-out for this book by Emma Smith for a while, even since I learned that it was about the war service of young women on the canals during the Second War War, and had recently been re-issued. It’s an intriguing subject. This was her first book, published in 1948, when […]