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Conquering the Caminito del Rey   Like Patti I have a big fear of heights. I can manage a small step ladder and am okay looking over a balcony providing there are high barriers and I look ahead not down, but sheer drops terrify me. The roads over here are...

For this, my second  ‘golden years’ book I wanted to write about older women reinventing their lives, building strong friendships, achieving their dreams and living their life. As a golden yearer myself I’m a firm believer in living life to the full, dancing whenever...

In nineteen thirty-nine when war broke out the government had already started providing air raid shelters for their civilians. There was an Anderson shelter, Morrison shelter, A surface brick and concrete shelter, basements and cellars, trenches, the London...

I am currently writing my thirty-sixth book, so I suppose it is inevitable that after that many stories I have mined both my own life experiences, and those of the people around me, as inspiration for my novels. To date, my most personal story was probably A Mother’s...

As women, we have to decide, at some point in our lives, whether or not we want to have a child or children. It’s a huge decision, and of course it’s sometimes taken out of people’s hands. But when it isn’t, it involves much lining up of things – the right partner at...

Character Bios Fitzwilliam ‘Liam’ Penrose – Eldest of the four Penrose brothers. Until recently he’s been living and working in London as a Project Manager for a large corporation (or doing something clever with numbers as the rest of the family refers to his job). He...

I have always been fascinated by the tragic story of the Romanov family. They were Queen Victoria’s relations and the two families met. The pictures of them enjoying holidays are lovely and it was terrible that the Czar and his family were just taken away from their...

On this day, a suffragette delegation of over 300 women marched on the Houses of Parliament to be greeted by lines of policemen and crowds of bystanders who attacked them for the next six hours. Led by Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women’s Social and Political...

Don't miss T.A. Williams' book, Under a Spanish Sky, a heartwarming and romantic story set in beautiful Spain. To the early Christians, pilgrimages were of vast importance. So important, in fact, that completion of a pilgrimage to one of the main Christian pilgrimage...