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.…
A presentation to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
https://youtu.be/1FgVJcIqAuc A presentation, reading and Q&A with members of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. Do genealogists always know what happens to the information they uncover? Perhaps not. This…
Talk and Q&A for Watford Writers
Thanks to zoom, a planned presentation on Where are the grown-ups? went ahead on 1 June 2020 A thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating discussion with fellow writers on my approach to…
Tell your 2020 story
The global pandemic that killed thousands. The deliberate murder of a black man by a police officer in America. This is 2020, and this is now, but historians in 50,…
Interview on Cambridge 105
A pre-recorded conversation about Where are the grown-ups? with presenter Leigh Chambers, broadcast on 22 May 2020. Here's the link to the book. https://amzn.to/2tNvGBj
Reviews for Where are the grown-ups?
'In the end we can only just write what we see and what we feel and you've done that beautifully.' Jason Solomons BBC Radio London Part history, part memoir, uncovering secrets,…