Category: Memories


  • One Voice of inspiration

    Writers and artists, from every genre, thrive on inspiration. It is the fuel in the tank of every novelist, painter, songwriter and musician. The seeds of inspiration have given fruit to some of humankind’s greatest achievements particularly in the arts. Often these seeds come from surprising places, are sometimes unexpected but however they come the…

  • Remembering ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’

    Do you remember the much loved but short lived rock band Daisy Jones and the Six? Of course you don’t, they never existed, apart from within the pages of the wonderfully crafted and original novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It’s originality comes by the way the story is told. Through a series of interviews with members of…

  • Image source: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/361413938825059128/ I have just had a pleasant encounter with a celebrity, who is known on British television for a programme called Coach Trip,  as I visited the library this morning. Yes @brendan_sheerin was in there learning his lines for his role in this years pantomime at Hull New Theatre and given that I have had some experience in…