Bestselling author Katie Carr has written a beautiful book of narrative non-fiction about, as she puts it, ‘sea, weather, family and the quiet work of finding your way after loss’. It’s about kayaking and motherhood, resilience and joy: https://summersdale.com/titles/katie-carr/thundery-at-times/9781837998388/ For a few years now I’ve worked with Canadian author Marion Crook giving early editorial feedback on […]
To help mark the 140th anniversary of Theodore Bent’s 1885 book ‘The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks’, here I am reading some sections from the chapter on Santorini – now on YouTube. ‘On entering the basin of Santorin, one experiences directly the pleasant impression of seeing something utterly new…’
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For all of September, my book TAVERNA BY THE SEA has been featured on the prizes banner of the Facebook group We Love Memoirs! It’s a wonderfully supportive group and members have been posting some lovely reviews (‘made me long for sun-filled days on an idyllic Greek beach…’… ‘makes the reader feel as if they