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MY FIRST BOOK TALK

I did my first talk to a book club today based in Tile Hill in Coventry. After having read the two reviews on Amazon I thought that I would 'pre'empt' any bad reviews by saying that the enjoymen ........

Talk

I am talking at the Book Club at Tile Hill Library in Coventry on 14th December at 11am.I uses to live within walking distance of the Library nearly 30 years ago. This is the first talk I will have do ........

Educating people

I am doing a talk at Tile Hill Library in Coventry on 14th December which I am looking forward to. I have decided to try and get into local Senior Schools and talk about the pleasures of reading and w ........

St Petersburg

While I was writing St Petersburg I had to do a lot of research on the internet, from the inside of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg to Tsarkoy Selo to Tallin and inside of Faberge's workshops. I wa ........