Category: Sussex
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Flashes of Doubt
Some say it was during the 1960s that the idea of ‘the generation gap’ entered into popular usage. It became a useful phrase that summed up the differing attitudes towards politics, behaviour, music, fashion and virtually everything else between the young and the old — with the ‘old’ including everyone over 30. Children born after…
Isabella Muir
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Whispers of Fortune
For many people across the world, 1961 offered hope and optimism. For others not so much. On 20 January that year, John Fitzgerald Kennedy became President of the United States. In Whispers of Fortune we learn how the words of his inaugural speech crossed the Atlantic to be heard by a young woman who was…
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Lost Property
‘What’s your definition of a secret?’ This opening line from Lost Property, the second novel in the Janie Juke crime mystery series, introduces a theme that runs throughout the book – a theme of secrets and lies. At the heart of the novel readers are introduced to the secret organisation that was said to have…
Isabella Muir
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Choices
It’s a self-evident truth that war affects everyone, young and old, those on the front line, and those who remain at home fearing for loved ones, as well as fearing for their own futures. My novella, Choices, explores some of those fears through the experiences of ten- year-old, Vera Stubbs. With her father far away,…
Isabella Muir
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Treat yourself to a cosy Christmas!
It’s that time of year when the shops are busy, the nights are long, the weather can be tricky (!) and you might be wondering how and when you can grab a quiet moment to relax. Whatever your plans, if you have the chance to squeeze in a peaceful moment or two, you might like…
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Meet the tenants of Number 1, Mountfield Road!
Anyone who has read my stories will know I am fascinated by the recent past. That fascination leads me to be forever questioning. How did we arrive at the life we live now, in the world we live in now. Thinking about the how and why of it all, I’ve been imagining a scenario where…
Isabella Muir
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Meet the tenants of Number 1, Mountfield Road!
Anyone who has read my stories will know I am fascinated by the recent past. That fascination leads me to be forever questioning. How did we arrive at the life we live now, in the world we live in now. Thinking about the how and why of it all, I’ve been imagining a scenario where…
Isabella Muir
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Something for those in-between days…
It’s Wednesday 27th December. A whole year to wait until Christmas Day, and Boxing Day a recent memory… and yet, there is still New Year to consider – decisions to make – whether to stay awake until the midnight hour or steal an early night so that when you awake you have arrived in 2024!…
Isabella Muir
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Partridge
Stories bringing you the sparkle of nature at Christmas With the release of – Partridge – we’ve reached the end of our Christmas advent calendar! Of course, we couldn’t have a series of festive short stories that has birds as its central theme without including the Partridge. Let’s get Michael’s thoughts on the subject, in…
Isabella Muir
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Tree sparrow
Stories bringing you the sparkle of nature at Christmas By writing this advent calendar of short stories I sought to merge nature with history. So when I researched the ninth story in the series – Tree Sparrow – I learned about an event that brought mankind’s influence on wildlife into even sharper focus… When I…
Isabella Muir
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