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January 2019

A Story for January: Travels with my Teapot

Travelling with my Teapot – One of the duties of being an author is travelling to book festivals, often in far-flung places. Clothes are thrown into a bag at the last possible moment, usually including a kilt for festival appearances and an endless supply of white shirts. These are interesting occasions, of course, and you […]

December 2018

A Story for December: Blowing In for Christmas

Now this story that I’m about to tell you is true. People think that authors make things up – and, by and large, that is quite correct. They do. They spin the most unlikely tales…

November 2018

A Story for November: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

Not technically a story…but an article from 2011 about custody battles, pet seals, German names, and sausage dogs.

October 2018

A story for October: Small birds, like painted chickens

Small birds, like painted chickens first appeared in the Good Housekeeping magazine. From the very beginning it had been an ideal arrangement. After Anne had the baby—eight months afterwards—she had been able to go back to work again with complete confidence that everything would run smoothly. She was a doctor and did not want to stop […]

September 2018

A Story for September: A Wartime Romance

An extract from The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse.

August 2018

A Story for August: A Most Satisfactory Weekend

Most satisfactory… George Leary waved good-bye to his wife at St Pancras Station. There’s the train to Paris, he thought, and there’s my wife boarding it. Good riddance … No, no, no! He stopped himself. It was a terrible thing to think even if she would never know that the thought had crossed his mind. Bon […]

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