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100 Stories: 2nd Sensory Book Out Now Chris Fielden’s Sensorially Challenged Volume 2 has been released this week. This is the 9th book published via his writing challenges. The book supports a marvellous organisation called The National Literacy Trust, an independent charity dedicated to giving disadvantaged children literacy skills. I am pleased to announce that my Sensorially… Read More A plethora of adjectives & adverbs

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Shortlisted

Pleased to hear this morning that The Road to Civitella, 1944 – the Captain, The Chaplain and the Massacre has reached the shortlist of four books for the Hall & Woodhouse DLF Writing Prize (Dorchester Literary Festival). Looking forward to visiting Poundbury for the event at the Duchess of Cornwall on 18 July when the… Read More Shortlisted

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Civitella book gets nominated

Dorchester Literary Festival facebook We are thrilled to announce our long list for the Hall & Woodhouse DLF Local Writing Prize. This year we received 70 entries (up from last year’s 53), representing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction including short stories, travel, fantasy, history and crime. Many thanks to our second round judges… Read More Civitella book gets nominated

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Chinese New Year

And it’s the Year of the Pig- who’d have guessed? Thank you Wiltshire Museum for this tweet. Wiltshire Museum (@WiltshireMuseum) 05/02/2019, 15:47 Happy Chinese New Year! 2019 is year of the pig. Famous pigs in Wiltshire include a Calne bronze sculpture, which made 2017 national news after it was stolen and subsequently recovered. The pig… Read More Chinese New Year

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Where to buy Bringing Home the Bacon

Bringing Home the Bacon is currently available at Devizes Books, Calne Heritage Centre, Calne Town Council, Bank House, Quemerford PO, The New Wine Shop, Calne, Devizes Museum, and Chippenham Museum. You can also order signed copies through my contact page.

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Little Lance Trophy

The winners of this year’s Calne Heritage Centre Quiz Night were team ‘Quiz on my Face’: left to right: Odette Carter, Steve Drage, Paul Johnson and Joan Whale. They were presented with the Little Lance the Pig trophy which is retained for the year. Odette, who is director of Odette Funeral Services in Calne, said… Read More Little Lance Trophy