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What a load of nonsense.

Nonsense poems have delighted our childhoods and colored our imaginations to portray that anything is possible. Children delight when we recite them. My Welsh Grandmother would make up her own. I went like this. Lauren…

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Never judge a cover by its book.

I just discovered some book illustrators and cover designers were never credited by Collins. In particular the first UK editions of Agatha Christies Murder on the Orient, published in 1934. Maybe Collins were not alone…

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Harry Killbuck

Ten years of research and a couple of years to write, this is the story of Brighton artist Harry Killbuck. It is a tragic tale. I thought it would be good to start featuring the…

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And there in the corner, i find.

Corners are the places I relish, enticed and drawn towards them in obscure settings, often by a sense of intrigue, where you stumble on the least expected. uncover lost secrets, past history, forgotten stories and…

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Skeleton in the attic.

If you were to ask me what was the proudest thing I have ever achieved it has to be, without any doubt, the writing of my first book, based on a true story of my…

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Change and change again.

Mum, why do you have so many notebooks and diaries? I am home from travelling and back at my lovely house La Gaia in Spain. I look around and feel grateful for my surroundings, but…

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A Snazzy Tale, Writing a memoir.

I always knew that one day I would write a book about the creation of Snazaroo the face painting company I developed with my husband Paul back in 1984. The time had to be right…