Jane Smyth
Jane was born in Birmingham, and remains a Brummie at heart although she has lived in north Worcestershire for many years. She worked as a lecturer at a college in the West Midlands for most of her career, starting out teaching secretarial subjects and having to re-educate herself every few years as technology and computers gradually took over. By the end of her career, she held the position of Senior Teacher and lecturer in IT. She also has qualifications in photography and fitness instruction, the latter she no longer uses, saying she much prefers being a participant rather than the teacher. Happily married, she and her husband Rob have two children, three granddaughters and two fox terriers. They share their time between the UK and their
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Sally’s story of her great-great-grandmother’s extraordinary life appears in the anthology Itchy Feet: Tales of Travel and Adventure. Her exploration of travel and grief is included in the Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2022.
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I was born in London in 1956 and lived most of my life in the south of England.
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I ran a naturist resort in Portugal for three fun-filled summers. Mrs Bun decided this was what we wanted to do. We spent two years searching before we found L’Olivette, our little paradise in the South of France.
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John Manuel
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Peter Barber
Peter Barber is the award-winning, bestselling author of Greek travel memoirs, including A Parthenon on our Roof and A Parthenon in Pefki.
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A native Londoner, he lives between England and Greece. Marrying his fiery Greek wife Alexandra not only made him part of a Greek family but also immersed him in Greek life and culture. Fascinated by the people, history and traditions, Peter dove in head first. He wished to be among the locals and experience Greek life first-hand.
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The best years of my life were spent on a small-holding in Wales, but then I gave it all up for an even better life on a boat in France. I have reached the slightly terrifying age of 64 and I am now happier than I have ever been.
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Peter Barber
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Alison Stewart
Alison has had nine books published - two books for adults and seven for young people. Four of them have been translated into Italian, Danish, Dutch and Thai.
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Her latest project,Cold Stone Soup, an unpublished memoir about growing up under apartheid and migrating to Australia has won the FAW 2013 National Literary Awards (Jim Hamilton Award for a non-fiction manuscript). Cold Stone Soup was also runner-up in the 2010 Penguin/Varuna Scholarship.
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Craig Briggs was born on the 12th of July 1962, in St. Luke’s Hospital, Huddersfield, the second child, and only son, of Donald and Glenys Briggs. The birth of their daughter had been a joy. The arrival of Craig would make the family complete. Unfortunately, Craig was not a ‘normal’ lad; he’d been born with congenital feet deformities.
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E.J. Wood
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E.J. Wood is a British writer of dark romance and thrillers with imperfect, morally grey characters. Stories that kiss you sweetly before they tear you apart, luring you in with tenderness and leaving you breathless in ruins.
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Sabina Ostrowska
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Lindy Viandier
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Lindy's love of nature shines through in her writing and her books transport the reader to the heart of rural France.
Before moving to France, Lindy has worked as an advertising feature writer for a North Wales newspaper, and as a freelance short stories for various UK magazines. She has also had articles on language and culture featured in French Property News.
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Drew Johnson
Drew Johnson lives in inland Andalucía.
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An author, musician and writer of funny poems (if you’re lucky enough to get a birthday card from him), Drew spends most of his time driving his wife, Chris, crazy.
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Lindy Viandier
Lindy Viandier is the author of 'Damson Skies and Dragonflies' and 'Mellow Mists and Walnut wine' which each chart a year in her life at Les Libellules, the 300-year-old house in the Burgundy countryside that she and her husband are lovingly restoring.
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Shirley Read-Jahn
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Catherine Berry
It got to me. Living in France was supposed to have a beginning and an end. It nearly did have an end in a way that I could never have imagined, but now it can’t. I belong amidst the bewildering complexities and incongruences of French life, and wherever I am, for as long as I am, this will not change.
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Nothing from my Australian upbringing pre-supposed this French fascination. My first steps in the language were coincidental, and it was probably luck that saw one of the young, groovy teachers allocated to my beginner’s French class at school.
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Nikki McArthur
In 2004 Nikki McArthur (with her husband and three children), traded in her life as an IT trainer and Hotelier in the UK, to live the good life in rural South West France. She now has five children, is a freelance Proof Reader, runs a Retreat and Holiday let business, Garden Centre and Landscaping business, and has also found the time to pursue her love for writing.
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Dvora Treisman
Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Los Angeles, Dvora Treisman has been living in Catalonia, Spain for over twenty years. She spent most of her professional life in administration at the University of California and finished it as a technical writer for a major health care provider. She has been writing Beyond the Pale, a blog about her Catalan experiences, since 2009 and published her memoir, No Regrets: A Life in Catalonia, in 2022. Her next book, Stories My Father Told Me: From Warsaw, Moscow, Algeria, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic, will be published soon.
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