Colchester Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
The organisers of Colchester’s Holocaust Memorial Day asked me to contribute to this year's online events and I am grateful for the opportunity to make it meaningful despite the current…
Success for Where Are The Grown-Ups? at Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards 2020
Where are the grown-ups? is among the finalists in the Memoir category of the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards 2020. The US-based book contest, endorsed by the…
An audio interview with Robin Quinn of the Independent Writers of Southern California
https://youtu.be/c17wiNKVKHY Members of the IWOSC based in LA joined a zoom session on Turning Your Family History into a Book. Ruth Badley, author of Where are the grown-ups? answers questions…
The author answers questions posed by Fennel Grove Book Club
Members of Fennel Grove Book Club read Where are the grown-ups? and sent me a list of questions about the story. The club is based near Ripon, North Yorkshire but…
New information from an invoice dated 1933
The second part of my memoir, Where are the grown-ups? required some historical research. I didn't include everything I found out and some questions are only occurring to me now,…
The Great Escape
The Daily Telegraph's feature on moving from a city to a rural location features Ruth and Tim Badley as one of three case studies. The journalist was kind enough to…
Guest author for Memoir Mentors
A presentation, discussion and Q&A on all aspects of using your family's story as material for a book. The group chose to read Where are the grown-ups? and invited me…
Author talk to The National Women’s Register
An audience of some 50 plus NWR members joined me online for a presentation and Q&A on Where are the grown-ups? http:// https://amzn.to/2tNvGBj Click on link to watch. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k129UejO-Zo&feature=youtu.be
A talk and reading for The Junction, Dubai
I was part of Dubai's theatre community for the two and half years I lived in the United Arab Emirates and made many friends there. It was great to reconnect…
How to turn your family history into a book
Before the Covid-19 crisis forced the cancellation of shows and exhibitions, Family Tree Magazine had asked me to run a workshop for budding writers at their planned event in London.…