Celebration time – November 2024 in Chiang Mai
In the same month that Donald Trump is elected the 47th President of the United States, the biggest city in Northern Thailand is unperturbed. Despite the global shock waves reverberating…
Lockdown inspires author’s ‘bite-sized’ travel memoir
Suffolk Free Press, published 23 December 2021 Bite-sized World available in paperback and ebook https://amzn.to/33KpEDH
Bite-sized World
Travel, eating out and live entertainment - the activities that enrich our lives - are celebrated in this entertaining, but unexpectedly nostalgic memoir of recent times. From adjusting to expat…
The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
The Wishing Shelf Book Awards named Where are the grown-ups? as a finalist in the 2020 Adult Non-Fiction category. It's rare in any book award to receive specific feedback from…
An Online Event for Family History, Ancestry and Genealogy Researchers
The Genealogy Show is a two-day virtual event from Friday 25 June (12:00AM BST) – Saturday 26 June 2021 (11:59PM BST) I’m a speaker this year and in two online…
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,…