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Novels are fertile ground for Alan

Saturday, November 15, 2008

ALAN Titchmarsh does write a good yarn. His latest, set in the honey stone Georgian streets of Bath and the dreaming spires of Oxford, is a love story and gentle mystery with a painting at its heart, set over three generations, writes Sarah Pitt.

The affable...

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Lynne is online literary legend

Saturday, November 15, 2008

DEEP in the heart of the countryside on the borders of Devon and Cornwall, up hill and down dale, then up again, from the comfortable...

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Glider pilot Ron is flying high

Saturday, November 15, 2008

WHEN he was a little boy growing up in Plymouth's Devonport district, Ron Johns would save his pocket money to buy books to read of an evening,...

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Drake's drum beats for a nation

Monday, October 27, 2008

CASTLES rarely disappoint when you are on the hunt for a good ghost story and Berry Pomeroy near Totnes is certainly no exception. Not for...

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Canny kitchen tips still stand up today

Monday, October 27, 2008

IT'S true. The size of your kitchen has no effect on the quality of your cooking and a chef who has mastered sauces really does sit on the apex...

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Senses can give a feel of history

Monday, October 27, 2008

IT'S the cathedral that first breaks into view as you journey along the road. Despite wooden scaffolding at its west end, the long 80ft high,...

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How life went on in a time of turmoil

Above left – evacuated children head to new homes to escape the bombing. Above – despite the devastation, this wedding went ahead in a bombed-out church. Below – toilet paper was as scarce as hen's teeth in Devon during the war

Monday, October 20, 2008

Colin Bradley discovers real-life stories about gas masks, GIs and the generosity of ordinary Devon folk PEG and Dick Cotton had good reason to...

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Little luxury softens hard life of Land Girl

Julia Stoneham, author of Muddy Boots and Silk Stockings, has extensive experience writing for TV and radio

Monday, October 20, 2008

IT IS 1943 and there's a war on, writes Sarah Pitt. Alice Todd has been abandoned by her husband and needs to find a way to support herself...

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Recordings reveal author's true image

The late author John Fowles in his garden at Lyme Regis. He lived in the West Dorset town for nearly 40 years

Monday, October 20, 2008

TAPE recordings of a Westcountry author will be aired this month, shattering his "cantankerous recluse" image and portraying him as a man full...

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Crime, cricket and life of a private princess

Tim Heald, author of, amongst many other successful books and novels, the definitive biography of Princess Margaret, sits by the River Fowey in Cornwall where he now lives

Thursday, October 16, 2008

ONE of the things often said about the remote Westcountry is that it's cut off and hopelessly removed from the corridors of power and the...

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