As usual, it’s been a busy few months and our last event for the summer was on Saturday 24 June at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore in Walton Street, Oxford. Coincidentally, a street that I know well as my sister-in-law and brother-in-law used to live there. In fact the day turned into a family reunion for my husband, Charlie Johnson, as we met up with...
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It’s Refugee Week and on Saturday 24 June we will be at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore in Oxford: There will be readings from our Refugees and Peacekeepers Anthology. Contributions from ticket entry and book sales will be made to Help Refugees and the Refugee Council. Here is the list of readers: Wersha Bharadwa is an award-nominated journalist...
Read MorePiacenza in May
We have been spending quite a lot of time in Piacenza, a city in Emilia-Romagna. The local football team is called ‘Piace’ which means pleasing, as in ‘mi piace’ – ‘I like’. In Roman times it was called Placentia. Piacenza, a garrison town, not that dissimilar to Colchester, cannot be counted as a tourist...
Read MoreSaturday 27 May, Piacenza Italy
Rosso Tiziano Art Gallery, Piacenza Launch of Il Tempo del Disgelo by Ilaria Locati. Readings by Ilaria Locati, Sara Elena Rossetti and Arturo Croci. Music by guitarist, Matteo Ugazio. Ilaria Locati Artist. She graduated from the Brera Academy in Milan with a degree in sculpture. She has participated in many one-person and group shows in Italy and...
Read MoreApril sunshine and chilly evenings…
Here in Italy we will be celebrating Liberation Day on 25th April which also happens to be my late parents’ 75th wedding anniversary. They got married in London three years before Italy was liberated in 1945. After a busy March we are having a short Easter break in Castelletto, Italy. Nightingales are singing outside our bedroom. I have seen a dead...
Read MoreMarch has been very busy…
We have had five events this March. On Wednesday 1st March I gave a talk to various years in the lovely library at St Helena’s School, Colchester as part of World Book Week. The girls and boys were very attentive and it was great to find so many young people interested in creative writing and in getting themselves published. Thanks to Luigi Callegari,...
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