My first newspaper

Today I appeared in the Frome Times, my local paper. I’m wondering whether I might be a question in my local pub quiz at the Griffin! My piece is just beneath one about our disgraced MP…

Sturminster Newton Literary Festival

June 5th was my second book event, the Sturminster Newton Literary Festival. I’d never been to the small Dorset town before, and appropriately it is the centre of Hardy country (the more famous one). The venue was 1855, a former NatWest bank building that has been restored and revamped to accommodate – initially – 30 traders.

Burnham-on-Sea Book Festival

Saturday May 20th, 2023 was my first ever book festival. Lewis, the festival organiser, asked me to run a Travel Writing Workshop (together with Peter) in the morning and a book talk in the afternoon. There wasn’t a lot of time between events.

Vienna in springtime!

This week was my first time in Vienna since November 2015 when I came up with the idea of researching – and then writing – a book about my family. The city was just as lovely as I remember it and two days weren’t nearly long enough!

Ad Lib has bagged The Tennis Champion Who Escaped the Nazis, a "meticulously-researched" family history by Felice Hardy.

Editorial director Duncan Proudfoot acquired world all language rights from Neil Hennessy-Vass at Xavicus Media. The book will be published on 3rd July 2023.