Ten years after I published ROAD WORKS, a nostalgic travel memoir told through the prism of family car journeys over forty years, I’ve co-written a sequel, THE EXTRA MILES – on roads still to travel.

Not so many cars this time, and just ten years of travels, but lots of wry humour from my co-writer and travelling companion, Anne-Marie. For all of us, every journey is a personal experience and we relate ours together with over hundred coloured pictures.

We hope you’ll enjoy riding with us across England, Ireland, Scotland, France and New Zealand perhaps recalling some of your own visits and maybe discovering new places you want to explore.

THE EXTRA MILES by Brian Bold with Anne-Marie Groves is currently available as a paperback from www.lulu.com and hopefully soon from Amazon too.

Long term supporter of Watford Writers is Linda Spurr who has written a super beginner's guide to writing fiction.

25 chapters cover everything from the reason to write, forming an idea and taking this right through all the important stages to editing and finishing.

Linda was a journalist for newspapers and the BBC for 20+ years, specialising in sport. Linda then became a freelance travel writer for magazines. Now she write novels and a writing blog.

Linda's novel Pathway To the Gods was shortlisted in the Wilbur Smith Adventure Prize four years ago. Read here for details.

A Beginner's Guide to Writing Fiction is a must for all those who write fiction.

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GEORGIANA JANE HENDERSON

(1771 - 1850)

By Susan Bennett

Published 2020

This book provides a flavour of a period of history known as the Enlightenment through the eyes of a young girl born in 1771. Georgiana Jane Henderson (nee Keate) was known to actors, actresses, artists, naval men, emigres and even a South Sea islander and visited England's spa towns. She had her portrait painted by Angelica Kauffman RA and John Russell RA.

Susan Bennett MA is an Honorary Faculty Fellow at Brighton University; and

Honorary Secretary of and Editor for The William Shipley Group for RSA History.

Susan is also a dedicated member of Watford Writers .

Wonderland by Andrea Neidle

Published in 2019

Andrea’s poetry has been published both here and in the USA, broadcast on Radio 3, Radio London and Harlech TV. She worked as a copywriter at major London ad agencies and then moved into teaching, leading the Postgraduate Advertising course at West Herts College.

The author of “How to Get into Advertising” (Cengage Learning, 2002) and the founder of Get Into Advertising training workshops, Andrea lives in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

www.andreaneidle.wordpress.com

Wonderland is published by TheWoodland Press.

Kelvin and Henry by John D.Ward

Published in 2019

Kelvin Williams has lived in an orphanage since his parents died in a car crash nearly ten years ago. Now, his Uncle Henry has arrived to take him out of the home, but Kelvin never knew he had an uncle or any living relative. Is Henry really his uncle? Why has Henry waited so long? He promises fun and riches, but can Kelvin trust him?

Henry introduces Kelvin to his world of bars, crooks and gamblers. It is 1963, and there is social political and racial upheaval in the southern states of America and Kelvin has to grow up fast in Henry's world.

Lucifer's Child by Gideon Masters

Published in 2019

What do you do when you're dying? You've tried every conceivable trial and crank cure and travelled the world to do it. You've blown all your savings, all to no avail. The wife you love faces a future without you and no money. If you're a man of action, you seize any opportunity, however insane, to safeguard your wife and to take your mind off things. So when John read the crazy advertisement in the paper: "EXPERT BODYGUARD REQUIRED. HIGH POSSIBILITY OF DEATH. LEAVE FOR FOREIGN PARTS WITHIN THE WEEK. THREE MONTHS OR LESS, DEPENDENT ON ABILITY TO SURVIVE. 75,000." he, of course, applied. And when he met the gun toting lunatic who placed the advertisement, naturally he accepted the job. It was a lot of cash. His life was over anyway. How could he know it was also about to explode into a new beginning? A beginning filled with dense reality, sexuality and violence of dreams and nightmares.

Friday's Child by Rosemary Morris

Published in 2019

London. 1822

Since the day her oldest sister entered society, Lady Elizabeth imagined the pleasures of her first London Season. Unfortunately, when she is old enough to make her debut, no member of her family is available to chaperone her in London. She accepts her Great-Aunt Augusta’s offer to bring her out in Cheltenham. Elizabeth looks forward to living at Augusta’s grand house near the lively, popular town where people drink mineral water at pump houses and enjoy the social life. Determined to be the perfect debutante, she cannot imagine creating a scandal. It is fortunate she cannot foresee the future. Modest, loving and giving. Elizabeth is blessed with beauty and a fortune. It would not be surprising if her ‘head is turned’ by admirers but she is not a flirt. When she sees Mr Yates she sets her heart on him, but she is not attracted to Sir Victor who has an exotic background, and amber eyes like a tiger’s which unnerve her. Both gentlemen made their fortunes when they served in the East India Company. Will they lead her into trouble? Will one of them be the perfect match for her?

The full list of Rosemary's published works can be seen at: http://rosemarymorris.co.uk/

A THANKLESS CHILD

Wonderland by Andrea Neidle

Kelvin and Henry by John D.Ward

Lucifer's Child by Gideon Masters

Friday's Child by Rosemary Morris

Short but Tall Stories by Brian Bold