Maggie Davies
The Books in My Life - Jane Eyre
With little spare money for books when I was growing up, I haunted the local library (using my mother's ticket) and begged everyone for...
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Maggie Davies
Jul 17, 20232 min
History that is Stranger than Fiction
Before I fell under the spell of Fitzwilliam Darcy, I was an avid admirer of C S Forrester's Horatio Hornblower. Still am, if the truth...
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Maggie Davies
May 9, 20234 min
Jane Austen's Husbands: Why do Clever Men Marry Silly Women?
Do you wonder about the husbands in Jane Austen's books? Tanya van Hasselt, my fellow-author and member of our writing group ninevoices,...
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Maggie Davies
Apr 14, 20231 min
The Tail of a Chair
Some years ago I was looking for an occasional chair since, when my writing group (ninevoices.wordpress.com) meets at my home, I need an...
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Maggie Davies
Dec 15, 20222 min
Burned at the Stake?
It is tempting to dream of being magically transported into the past. Not, of course, to be Anne Boleyn, kneeling on the scaffold...
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Maggie Davies
Oct 18, 20223 min
The Daughter of Time by Josephone Tey
I first read The Daughter of Time as a teenager and it fueled a lifelong fascination with history and an interest in Shakespeare's...
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Maggie Davies
Oct 5, 20222 min
The Late Hilary Mantel
In the spring of 2015 I wrote the following post in my writing group's blog (ninevoices.wordpress.com) and the sad demise of Hilary...
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Maggie Davies
Sep 5, 20223 min
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
'At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring. Inman's eyes and the long wound at his neck drew them, and the sound of their...
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Maggie Davies
Sep 3, 20224 min
The King Under the Car Park
The Richard III Society commissioned Caroline Wilkinson, Professor of Craniofacial Identification at the University of Dundee, to...
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Maggie Davies
Aug 25, 20222 min
Hunter's Chase by Val Penny
When an interrupted burglary ends with the thief being pursued across an Edinburgh golf course and his ankle-breaking collapse on top of...
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Maggie Davies
May 22, 20222 min
H is for Hawk
For Christmas I bought my husband a book about a woman who buys a bird and attempts to train it. Not my kind of thing. I'm drawn to books...
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Maggie Davies
Apr 3, 20222 min
The Fairy Dogmother - A Lesson For Writers About Rejection
You are at the kitchen table, drooping over yet another rejected story. In her basket Ruby, the cocker spaniel, looks expectant, head...
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Maggie Davies
Dec 28, 20211 min
My Lovely Husband...
For Christmas my lovely husband ordered a personalised jigsaw from Wentworth Puzzles. Who needs Mr Darcy...?
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Maggie Davies
Nov 21, 20211 min
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
There are books that you want to read a second time and Jung Chang's Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is one. I read the story soon...
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Maggie Davies
Nov 4, 20211 min
Police Procedurals
I have written before about my enjoyment of good crime fiction, which I find an excellent change of pace from historical novels and...
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cpaveley
Sep 13, 20216 min
Elizabeth Gaskell – novels for our time
From time to time I like to include articles about books by writers other than myself, and the following is a piece by Tanya van Hasselt,...
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Maggie Davies
Aug 25, 20212 min
CECILY - by Annie Garthwaite
Before reading this book I was already aware that Cecily Neville - granddaughter of John of Gaunt and the mistress who subsequently...
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cpaveley
Aug 1, 20214 min
How my novel was published
I am delighted to welcome one of my periodic guest contributors, writing here about how she succeeded in having her debut novel...
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Maggie Davies
Jun 11, 20218 min
Twenty-Six Little Bones
Short story competitions keep many writers going. Less of a commitment than a novel and good practice for our craft, they offer the hope...
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Maggie Davies
Jun 2, 20211 min
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Katie, Charlotte and Trudie, whose names came out of the hat yesterday for free, signed copies of The Servant. They...
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