I’m delighted to announce that Poppyland has just published my latest book, Different Drums – One Family Two Wars. Based on family papers and original research, it tells the story of conscientious objection from religious non-conformity to humanitarianism during two wars with particular relation to Norwich. A big thank you to publishers Gareth and Janet Davies for taking it on. I hope it will prove its worth amongst the excellent selection of their new spring books. The book is available in East Anglian bookshops and online through Poppyland Publishing or order though your local bookshop wherever you are (via Amazon, you will get an edition that is of lower quality paper).
Last Thursday I attended the 2023 East Anglian Book Wards hosted by the National Writing Centre at the Dragon Hall on King Street. It was sponsored by Jarrolds, the Eastern Daily Press and UEA. What a pleasant evening it was. There was a full house and we were treated to chats with the nominated writers from each category in two sets of three. Holly Ainley, Head of Programmes & Creative Engagement, skilfully orchestrated the lively and often humorous conversation. Categories covered Poetry, Fiction, Memoir, Local History, History and Landscape..
Thank you to the Norwich Society Local History Bookclub for inviting me to talk about Countrywoman. So much knowledge and enthusiasm.
Now available from Poppyland Publishing at £12.95. Mention the name Rider Haggard to the 21st century reader and it is the novelist, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon’s Mines and She, who comes to mind. His wild adventures and stirring romances held their popularity from the late 19th right through to the later decades of the 20th century. But the East Anglian might also swiftly call to mind his daughter, Lilias, who was an accomplished authoress in her own right, a columnist for the Eastern Daily Press and a range of national publications. Hers is a very different story. While she had the privilege of sharing in some of her father’s exotic travels Lilias also shared her own generation’s tragic experience of the First World War. As a VAD nurse she watched as the harrowing conflict changed their world. When she returned to her Norfolk home she came back not only with a new depth and compassion but also with a determined affirmation of rural life that soon found its expression in her on countryside matters in many articles and books. |
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