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How to prepare your garden before you go on your summer holiday
Your summer garden may now be at its peak, awash with beautiful blooms and emerging edibles – but what are you going to do with it when you go on your two-week summer holiday? There are measures you can take to minimise the risk of returning to
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When an antique becomes a reason to murder...
Most families battling over a game of Cluedo would be delighted to solve the mystery with ‘Professor Plum in the library with a candlestick!’ But when your mother is a celebrated expert on BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, author of around 100 books on
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Bradt Travel Guides co-founder publishes her memoir
Hilary Bradt is an extraordinary woman. She's the co-founder of one of the most respected travel guide publishers in the world, one which was ‘the first’ to go to many worldwide destinations and which championed sustainable travel, long before it was
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The wartime novel set in a shoe factory
May Ellis writes historical sagas. She lives in a house on a road named after a Clarks shoe on the site of a former boot and shoe factory – so it was inevitable that this writer would want to write about the people who worked for Clarks in days gone
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Do you have the write stuff? Writers’ advice on getting published
You know you’ve got a bestseller inside you but don’t know where to start. Read on, as Maxine Gordon sources sound advice from leading lights in the creative writing world across the North West Caroline England's advice to fledgling novelists
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The famous Essex authors you've never heard of
Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, HG Wells… these legendary writers all spent time living in Essex. But did you know a whole host of the world’s most successful authors, poets and screenwriters, have been born and bred in our fair county
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A potter around Beatrix’s places
Many of the millions of visitors to the Lake District come in search of places connected to the area’s most famous writer, Beatrix Potter. SARAH FRENCH drops in on some of the locations that featured in the life of the author and her characters.
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Unique Shakespeare performances on the island in Poole Harbour
When Chaz Davenport played a toy soldier in Ferndown Drama’s The Day They Lost Raggety Ruth, little did he know that 30 years later he would be directing William Shakespeare’s Macbeth for the renowned Brownsea Open Air Theatre (BOAT). Open air
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Author Cameron Ward on his life in books
Cameron Ward, a philosophy graduate with a professional background in IT, has worked in both publishing and the public sector. Based in West Sussex, he is the author of A Stranger on Board, The Safe House and Spiral, which is due out in paperback on
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Why Author Francesca Capaldi loves losing herself in Kent’s historic houses
Based in New Ash Green, the award-winning writer tells us about her career highs, the pleasures of writing and reading, and why she loves losing herself in Kent’s historic houses and haberdasheries… Francesca, we catch you fresh from your latest