The pictures above are all books written by members of the Rugby Cafe Writers. Here is an introduction to some of our current members with links to their websites and published books.
David G Bailey grew up in East Anglia and now lives in the Midlands, based in Rugby for over forty years. He has published three contemporary novels, including The Tuesday-Thursday Tontine: Last Man Standing, set largely during the COVID-19 pandemic. His debut was a Young Adult adventure fantasy story Seventeen and he has produced two non-fiction volumes in a series When Life Gives You Strawberries – Memories of a Fenland Boy. An account of a 1960s boyhood, The Sunny Side of the House, was followed in 2026 by Wendy, the story of a courtship. To read more of and about David’s work, including opening chapters from the books mentioned, a quarterly newsletter and new content daily comprising extracts from diaries and other writings, visit his website.
Pam Barton has recently joined the Rugby Cafe Writers’ Group and began writing again after many years. She has in the past had a radio programme for children, been a D.J. and put through the landing on the moon for the Australian Radio in the Indian Ocean. On returning to England, she was a busy parent with John, and became a skin care consultant up to District Manager. After moving again, she went to Luton University for a marketing course. She retired to Rugby with John. Now she is enjoying writing again, painting is also a great pleasure although, as with the writing, hard work is needed.
Raymond Brown is a retired Anglican priest. He spent forty years working in parishes, mainly in London and Essex . He moved to Rugby in 2019 from his previous home in York. In his school days, Raymond fell in love with the English language and expresses that love today through writing poetry.
Angela Cassidy’s lifelong love for books and reading recently developed into crime fiction writing, after several creative writing courses. Her interest in the genre and her fascination with the criminal mind were kindled when she was a court reporter at the Crown and Appeal Courts of London, one of several communications-based careers she has enjoyed. She has thus far written two crime novels and is currently on her third but is yet to be published. Married with two children and two grandchildren, Angela is a keen gardener and long-distance runner, and an active member of the Rugby Café Writers group.
Ann Cooper was born in Sunderland and lived in various parts of the North East until she and her husband emigrated (as £10 poms) to Wollongong Australia. One child and two-and-a-half years later, they returned to “the old country”. The next move came when the family (by this time four) moved to the Midlands where they have lived for 44 years. In that time, Ann has worked as a marriage guidance counsellor, run bereavement groups for children, been an Education Social Worker and home/school support worker. She is a member of Rugby Theatre, appearing a few months ago as the wicked stepmother in Cinderella. She writes poetry when moved and has appeared on Britain’s Got Talent twice with her performance poetry.
Martin Curley has recently retired from a lengthy career as a long-distance lorry driver. This career allowed him to read many books and listen to numerous radio plays. It also allowed him plenty of time to literally talk to himself, often out loud. This talking out loud usually took the form of two-way conversations of which Martin, obviously, had to adopt both parts. He believes that talking to yourself is the first sign of creativity. These conversations then formed the basis for many of his short stories. He lives in Rugby with his wife and three dachshunds. He stopped watching television about forty-five years ago, citing that ten minutes spent watching TV is ten minutes spent not listening to music.
Suzy Edney is a retired teacher and has lived in Rugby since 1979.She enjoyed writing stories to amuse her children when they were small. Suzy composes poems and rhymes to celebrate special occasions. During lockdown she wrote some stories which were enjoyed by family and friends. She has since self-published her first novel, Capulet Close and a book of short stories, Bikini Briefs. Both are available on Amazon – Kindle and Paperback. Her second novel, The Gallery Café is now available. Visit Suzy’s website to read more of her short stories.
Fiona Fisher was born at St Mary’s Hospital near Rugby and spent most of her formative years in the lovely old library in the town. From here she moved away to study at Royal Holloway University, where she learned the technicalities of language and honed her love for all things linguistic. After almost twenty years as a teacher of English and languages, she is now a Project Manager and looking to finally find the shape for the story she has been germinating for a few years. Her dream would be to win the lottery and open a bookshop so she can spend her days reading and drinking tea.
Patrick Garrett was born in a farm cottage in Perthshire, Scotland before the NHS came to be and spent the first nine years of his life on farms in Perthshire, Peeblesshire, Wigtownshire and Lanarkshire before moving to England, then two more farms in Princethorpe and Dunchurch. His father then moved to Rugby. As Patrick is blessed with mild dyslexia, his academic career was not stellar but once he learned to read, the world became his oyster. His careers ranged from apprentice, shop assistant, removals, HGV one driver and positions in the warehouse industry. He learned to fly gliders then qualified as a CAA Microlight aircraft pilot having his flying stories published in a flying magazine. After he retired, he decided to take up local history research and write about Rugby’s history. He then found Rugby Cafe Writers and had his stories and poems published in the Cafe Writers’ books.
Poet E. E. Blythe prefers to write under a pseudonym and here explains why: ‘Teasing, name-calling, bullying, violence and ridicule necessitated the name for an alias. It was good to stand, impassive, and listen to complimentary comments, and even praise, for poems, songs and stories; and my tormentors had no idea it was me. So when I write, I am E.E.Blythe.’
David J. Boulton took up writing well into retirement from a career in the NHS, so far publishing three historical detective novels. Set in the Peak District, their protagonist has a Quaker background and the books comprise a trilogy. A fourth novel, set in the Second World War, is complete and he has embarked on a sequel. Alongside General Practice, he and his wife have run a small farm in Northamptonshire for the last thirty years. Of their two grown-up children, one lives in the Peak District with her family, their son completing a five-generation connection for the author with the area. The Writing Fiction class at the Percival Guildhouse tutored by Gill Vickery has provided the author with encouragement and inspiration, not to mention improving his grammar. What’s all the Fuss About? has its origins in a class exercise.
Here is a link to David’s author page on Amazon.
Terri Brown – voice actor, artist and author – does not have a book that got her into reading because she doesn’t remember a time when she didn’t read. Her mother boasts that Terri was reading the likes of Jane Eyre at age seven. First published in a local newspaper aged nine, she caught the writing bug… she just had some things she needed to do first. A few decades, many adventures and a life less ordinary later, financed largely by freelance writing, she has now published her debut fiction novel, Shadow Man, which is now available from Amazon. www.terri-brown.com
Here is a link to Terri’s author page on Amazon.
Wendy Goulstone has been writing for as long as she can remember. She won the Stafford Children’s Library playwriting competition when she was 10 years old and hasn’t stopped since. This year she was joint winner of Stafford Library’s Staffordshire Countryside poetry competition. Her poems have been published in Orbis and The Cannon’s Mouth, and one was long-listed in the Words out Loud competition about the Covid outbreak, with a poem in the ensuing anthology, Beyond the Storm. She has been short-listed several times by Poetry on Loan. She is a member of several writing groups in Rugby and online, including Rugby Theatre Playwriting Group and Rugby Cafe Writers. Her furniture lies under a layer of dust and her culinary skills are basic.
Read about Wendy’s favourite books.
Philip Gregge was an optician in Rugby for over forty years. After qualifying as an optometrist, he studied theology. As part of the leadership team of a local charismatic church, he enjoys teaching theology and has written a theology training manual for study groups. He answers theological questions in ‘Let’s Ask Phil’, letsaskphil.org Philip started writing Historical Fiction after waking from an anaesthetic with a plot of an Anglo-Saxon murder mystery in his head. This whetted the fascination he already had for the early Dark Ages, and his research led him to write and publish Denua, Warrior Queen ‘based on real history, but with some of history’s intriguing blanks filled in’. He is now working on a trilogy with his original murder mystery as the first part. In his spare time he plays the banjo in an Irish Music band and repairs musical instruments. Philip Gregge’s website.
Simon Grenville was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and moved to the Midlands to enhance a personal relationship with a hospital manager called Syliva. He later moved to Rugby. He is a long standing member of the Rugby Theatre Writers Group, St Andrews Church and Rugby Theatre. He is the holder of the Geoffrey Ost Memorial Award 1980 for producing the stage play Crutch.
Brian Halford is a sports journalist who has written 12 books, the latest of which, Kicking Off Again: Football’s Greatest Season, was published on August 31st. It is now widely available, including from Amazon and Waterstones. Brian’s interest in creative writing was sparked and nurtured by his late wife Mary Bonner, a truly special person whose loveliness, strength and kindness still inspires him every day.
Originally from Essex, Christine Hancock has lived in Rugby for over forty years. A passion for Family History led to an interest in local history, especially that of the town of Rugby. In 2013 she joined a class at the Percival Guildhouse with the aim of writing up her family history research. The class was Writing Fiction and soon she found herself deep in Anglo-Saxon England. Based on the early life of Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, who died in 991AD at the Battle of Maldon, the novel grew into a series. She has self-published three volumes and is currently working on the fourth. Her short story in Get to the Point is based on the prologue, later discarded, of Bright Sword, the first of the Byrhtnoth Chronicles. www.byrhtnoth.com
Here is a link to Christine’s author page on Amazon.
Read about Christine’s favourite books.
Sadly Christine passed away in December 2021. We remember her with great fondness.
Born in England, Desmond Harding spent his early childhood overseas, giving him the bug for travel. In addition to having worked in the marine industry, acquiring and supplying spares for the larger ships, he has lived in the Middle East, visiting a few countries along the way. There have been a few gentle escapades, boyhood night-time adventures in Kenya, temporarily penniless in Marseille, supervised overnight by armed Iranians on Abu Musa island, and a fire-bomb attempt on the family’s Bahrain compound which added to life’s rich tapestry. But he must be one of the limited few who have arrived back from the rich Gulf States, landing at Heathrow, destitute and homeless, with a wife and two children barely in their teens. Now retired and living in Rugby with his wife and two cats, replacing the children who have flown the nest, he has self-published two thrillers, available from Amazon, The Dhow and The Irish Prime Minister. He is now trying to obtain an agent for his third manuscript and is currently working on editing his fourth thriller.
Here is a link to Desmond’s book The Dhow on Amazon.
Kate A Harris and her three siblings lived on their farm near Market Harborough. She left home at 16 to pursue her career with children. After training in the Morley Manor, Dr. Barnardo’s Home, in Derbyshire from 1966 to 1968, she qualified as a Nursery Nurse. Kate met and married her Royal Naval husband in Southsea when working in a children’s home. As a naval wife, she was in Malta for two years with her two sons when they were shutting the naval base. They have two sons and two grandchildren. She worked on the local newspaper and discovered a love of writing at 50! Now she is writing her story mainly featuring Barnardo’s. It’s a major challenge with intense and compelling research. She’s had an incredible response from diverse and fascinating resources. Kate is interested in hearing from people who worked in Barnardo’s, mainly in the 1960s.
Cathy Hemsley has been writing short stories and full-length novels for over twelve years: inspired by her family history and by her child’s idea for a fantasy novel. Two of her stories have been published in The People’s Friend and she has completed a fantasy duology, The Gifts and The City, as well as a book of short stories, Parable Lives, all available on Amazon. She is now retired from paid work, working on another two novels, supporting a local church, growing organic vegetables, and is also helping local people as the Rugby advocate for the Acts435 charity.
Here is a link to Cathy’s author page on Amazon.
Jim Hicks was born and raised in Rugby. After leaving school, he studied computing at Imperial College, London and the University of Cambridge. He worked in the Computing Services department of the University of Warwick for nearly twenty-six years before being made redundant in 2011. His mother is a little surprised that he joined a writers’ group. He thought someone might want some help with the technical side of using a computer to prepare documents, and has remained ever since.
Geoff Hill is a Zimbabwean writer and journalist living in Johannesburg. He is chief Africa Correspondent for The Washington Times (DC) and maintains a second home in Rugby. In 2000, Geoff became the first non-American to receive a John Steinbeck award for his writing. He has authored two books on Zimbabwe and writes for The Spectator.
Geoff’s profile on Wikipedia.
Chris Hinett emerged from the heart of the black country and moved to Rugby aged four, after three years of village life in mid Wales. He discovered his first special poem (called The Moon) around eight years old, which he can still recite today. Early interests in reading fuelled an eclectic taste in literature from any era, genre or age group, though he still can’t resist a good poem, and has written poetry throughout his life. Having created several rhyming stories for children’s picture books, he’s presently pursuing their publication. A quirky young adult fantasy novel is also in the midst of being written, with further additions in the pipeline. Formal planning is absolutely his nemesis! He prefers to write organically, with stories evolving naturally through an unfettered journey of discovery. His personal mantra is ‘Let the words sprout, nurture them, and they will grow.’
John Howes was born and raised in Rugby. He was a journalist on local newspapers for 25 years before retraining as a teacher. He has self-published two books – We Believe, a collection of his writings on religion, and This Frail Dust, a spiritual memoir.. He plays the piano and writes music for schools and choirs. John is working on another memoir and dabbles in poetry. He runs a book group and a theology group and presents a Youtube Channel dedicated to the music of Elton John and has recently celebrated getting 1,000 subscribers. Here is a link to John’s author page on Amazon.
Chloe Huntington started writing at the age of five or six and since then she hasn’t stopped. She has written short stories for school projects and essays for homework, but she has never published any of her works. She hopes that she can one day publish one (or more) of her stories and introduce the world to her world of fantasy, fiction and romance. Chloe lives with her Mum and her five chickens and wants to hopefully write a story from the point of view of a dog that she loves. What will Chloe write next?
Nicky Kaye moved home often with the RAF as a child, the youngest of four sisters. As an adult, she studied in East London, settling back in Berkshire with her two children after 15 years away. Having worked and lived close to both great wealth and serious deprivation, life led her into personal and spiritual self-development and an interest in anything and everything that might help effect the changes she’d like to see in our beautiful, shared world. After 20 years developing and implementing Local Government projects, Nicky recently moved to Rugby, joining the Café Writers to support her creative writing goals.
Michelle Kelly is an author and ghostwriter from Warwickshire. She has written romance for Harlequin, cozy mystery for Macmillan US and the bestselling When I Wasn’t Watching (2014) for HarperCollins. A Midsummer Night’s Scream is her first foray into cosy fantasy.
Alicja Kulczak is currently a student who, despite life’s ups and downs, always gravitates towards writing. She possesses the ability to convey deep ideas and complicated concepts through her descriptive and visceral lens. Her short stories focus on sharing her inner world, reflecting her personal thoughts and reflections that she has had over the years. In prose, Alicja is able to describe the most deepest and darkest emotions, making it her most personal form of art. Currently, she is writing a novel which revolves around the struggle of young-adults, told in a world where vampires lurk. And only when Sami joins the world of the dead, does she realise her purpose in saving the town of Gestina. Alicja is excited to publish her work sometime in the near future!
Ruth Hughes was born in Sutton Coldfield but has lived in Rugby for 50 years. She says, “I think I have a book in me but so far I just enjoy writing poems and recollections of my life.” Ruth belongs to Murder 57, which enacts murder mysteries around the country, and to Rugby Operatic Society.
Theresa Le Flem, a novelist, artist and poet, always wanted to be a writer. She lives in the Midlands, in the UK, with her husband Graham, an electrical engineer. With four novels now published, and also an anthology of her poetry and drawings, her dream was first fulfilled when her first novel was accepted and published by Robert Hale Ltd. She never looked back. Born in London into an artistic family, daughter of the late artist Cyril Hamersma, she has three children and five grandchildren all who live abroad in America and New Zealand. Her creative life began by writing poetry, painting and later in running her own studio pottery in Cornwall. But she has had a succession of jobs too – from factory-work, antiques, retail sales, veterinary receptionist and sewing machinist to hairdressing. Over three years ago, Theresa formed a group of local writers, Rugby Café Writers, who meet fortnightly to talk about their work over a coffee. Writing remains her true passion. Married to a Guernsey man, Theresa shares a love of the sea with her husband and recently they have bought an almost derelict cottage in Guernsey. Gradually they are working to bring it back to life. Situated only a short walk to the sea, it might one day become the perfect writer’s retreat where a new novel might emerge out of the dust and cobwebs. Theresa is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, the Society of Authors and The Poetry Society. https://theresaleflem.wordpress.com
Here is a link to Theresa’s author page on Amazon.
Caroline Lucy. After being awarded the children’s book Cat’s Magic by Margaret Greaves at primary school for good behaviour, Caroline’s passion for reading was ignited. Failing miserably throughout school and her final English report upon leaving education reading “all too often fails to develop her ideas beyond the obvious”, she went into warehouse work. Following this she became a midwife, unhappily worked her way around different areas of the NHS and private health care and had two beautiful daughters and a granddaughter. Her passion for reading and writing never went away and, as a mature student, she went on to gain a First Class honours degree in English and Creative Writing. Her next step is to embark on an MA in Creative Writing. Caroline openly admits poetry ‘isn’t her thing’ and, for someone who can’t follow a film, enjoys screenwriting most of all.
Aneesa Malik is a seven-year-old poet and writer. At the age of five, she received a Highly Commended prize in the Film Poetry Challenge run by the Young Poets Network. This year, she was one of the winners of the Love Rugby Festival poetry competition, where her work was displayed in Rugby’s MOAT Gallery. She has been performing her poetry at literary festivals regularly since 2024. This short story is her first in print.
A.A. Malik is a local author who grew up in Rugby and is proud to call it her hometown. She is an established writer of fiction, with her stories and poetry appearing in anthologies and journals. She is also a non-fiction writer published in a range of media. Her poetry explores the themes of spirituality, motherhood and identity, and she regularly reads it to audiences at literature festivals and poetry evenings.
Rosemary Marks has lived in Rugby all her life and has three children and four grandchildren. She was always an avid reader who dreamt of writing stories but never believed she could. In 2020 Rosemary completed an Open University degree. The creative writing modules of the degree made her realise that she was able to write stories that people enjoyed. She also discovered a penchant for writing poetry. With her new-found confidence, she joined Rugby Café Writers and has had a few stories and poems published in their recent anthologies. When she isn’t writing or reading, Rosemary enjoys pursuing several hobbies and spending time with family and friends.
Madalyn Morgan was brought up in Lutterworth, where she has returned after living in London for thirty-six years. She had a hairdressing salon in Rugby before going to Drama College. Madalyn was an actress for thirty years, performing on television, in the West End and in Repertory Theatre. She is also a classic rock DJ and has written articles for newspapers, music, and women’s magazines. Madalyn is the author of eleven novels published by Storm Publishing, including a World War Two saga, a post-war spy series, and a detective series. She has also released a collection of short stories, poetry, and prose titled Scenes from My Life. She is currently writing her twelfth novel set in 1970 while making notes for her memoir.
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Here is a link to Madalyn’s author page on Amazon.
Peter Maudsley was a member of Rugby Cafe Writers for several years and a good friend to many of us. Sadly, Peter passed away at the beginning of 2023. He is much missed.
Fran Neatherway grew up in a small village in the middle of Sussex. She studied History at the University of York and put her degree to good use by working in IT. Reading is an obsession – she reads six or seven books a week. Her favourites are crime, fantasy and science fiction. Fran has been writing for thirty-odd years, short stories at first. She has attended several writing classes and has a certificate in Creative Writing from Warwick University. She has completed three children’s novels, as yet unpublished, and is working on the first draft of an adult novel. Fran has red hair and lives in Rugby with her husband and no cats.
Read about Fran’s favourite books.
Bella Osborne has been jotting down stories as far back as she can remember but decided that 2013 would be the year she finished a full-length novel. Since then, she’s written five best-selling romantic comedies and been shortlisted three times for the RNA Contemporary Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Bella’s stories are about friendship, love and coping with what life throws at you. She lives in the Midlands, UK with her husband, daughter and a cat who thinks she’s a dog. When not writing, Bella is usually eating biscuits and planning holidays. www.bellaosborne.com
Here is a link to Bella’s author page on Amazon.
Simon Parker grew up and lived on The Wirral until 1985. He arrived in Rugby in 2003 via Coventry, Bristol and Seattle. He’s an aerospace engineer by training, with a love of the open road whether by bicycle, motorcycle or car. His travels galvanise his writing and he writes fiction for pleasure. He lives with his wife, two teenage children and a small collection of interesting vehicles: ‘on the button’ and ready for their next adventure!
Born in Bedfordshire to a French mother and English father, Sandrine Pickering enjoyed a very varied childhood in Yorkshire, Rutland and Warwickshire, with school holidays in France. Upon leaving Rugby High School, she read Biological Sciences at both the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Aix-Marseilles as an Erasmus exchange student, and completed her teacher training at Cambridge University. She has worked in marketing, PR, educational publishing, event management, teaching and complementary therapies. She has always enjoyed writing, and now, as the mother of eight-year-old twins, she is exploring memoire and children’s story writing.
Steve Redshaw was born and raised in Sussex. Over the past forty years he has taught young children in the South of England and East Anglia. He has now retired and is living aboard his narrowboat, Miss Amelia, on the Oxford Canal near Rugby. His passion is music, singing and playing guitar, and various other plucked instruments, in pubs, folk clubs and sessions around the area. He also is a dance caller for Barn Dances and Ceilidhs. His creative output is perhaps best described as emergent and sporadic, but when time allows, he enjoys composing songs and writing short stories.
Read Steve’s blog about living on a narrowboat.
Read about Steve’s favourite books.
Audrey Rooney-Ellis wanted to be a journalist when she was young so sent in fillers to the local newspapers, had an environmental newsletter in her school, ended up specialising in scripts in her Film & Video Production Degree and then did a PostGrad in Scriptwriting. Using all these skills she ended up working in marketing, focusing on copy and content writing, still writing stories, poems and novels in the background. Her aim is to one day get one of her novels published and she is grateful for the support from Rugby Cafe Writers for this aim.
Chris Rowe. Just before covid, Chris tried to write poetry: lockdown gave the time to attempt different poetic forms, some of which appeared in Press Pause. From childhood, Chris has been interested in reading prose: such as Richmal Crompton (Just William), Alison Utley (Sam Pig), Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, and Terry Pratchett.Shakespeare has always been a favourite and long ago the ambition was achieved of seeing a performance of every play: Antony and Cleopatra being the hardest to track down (all those scene changes deter production.). Favourite performers of the Bard are Oddsocks.
Jeremy Scott was born in Norfolk, England but lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from the age of four, where he witnessed the start of, and lived through, much of what has become known as The Troubles. After spending 14 years with the Corps of Royal Engineers, he settled in Germany in 1993 where he was a Lyricist, co-owner of an Indie Record Label and taught English to both adults and children before returning to the UK in 2007, settling in Rugby. He has since studied Philosophy with the Open University, qualified as a Reiki Master/Teacher, is a certified Life Coach and holds a Diploma in Freelance Journalism. Jeremy has recently published a motivational Self-Help book with a unique spiritual twist.
Linda Slate has lived in Rugby for 11 years. She has four children, 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. She has worked as a teacher and a police officer, both jobs have given her inspiration for her writing. Along with swimming, writing has been a lifelong passion. She has not yet had a novel published, but hopes to have one ready to submit by the end of 2023.
Dean Speed was born in Telford. Seeking adventure and a break from his humdrum life, he pursued a military career in his early twenties. As he travelled the world, his interest in the arts deepened. Although he had always been a keen artist, dyslexia had held him back in his youth. By his mid-thirties, he decided to expand his creative pursuits to include writing, aiming to broaden his mind and enjoy crafting magical worlds. Now, he spends every possible moment reading, listening, and writing stories and poems. He is currently working on a fantasy novel for his children, hoping to inspire them to write. Dean lives in Rugby with his partner and three children, who already have extensive book collections.
Andy Wenham has been retired for many years from a varied career in various banking and facilities management services. After escaping the rat race, he has been free to pursue his real interests including extensively cruising our wonderful waterways with his wife Lynn on their narrowboat, exploring terra firma in various caravans, tents and campervans and making occasional forays to foreign climes. Andy’s abiding interest is music and he plays melodeon, harmonica and guitar (not all at the same time) and sings a bit anywhere that will have him. He is an avid reader and is now trying his hand at writing and finds he’s loving it. He could not live without cheese.
Lynn Wenham is a retired nurse who has always been interested in the English language, both written and spoken. A few years ago, she started a group called Write Stuff who meet monthly and write together very spontaneously and then discuss the wide variety of pieces that emerge – poetry and prose. It is always a most enjoyable experience. She is hoping one day to write a really good story! Until then, she will enjoy the journey!
Lindsay Woodward writes love stories with a twist, blending romance with intrigue, unexpected turns and the occasional leap into the extraordinary. Her novels are for readers who enjoy romance but crave something a little different beneath the surface. She lives in Rugby with her husband and their lovely cat. Lindsay’s passion for storytelling began early, fuelled by childhood stories about the Fraggles from Fraggle Rock. Writing was always part of the plan and she went on to study it at university, turning a lifelong passion into a career. When she’s not penning her latest tales, Lindsay runs a marketing agency based in Warwickshire, skilfully balancing her dual passions.
Read about Lindsay’s favourite books.
Fiona White was brought up in St Andrew’s where summer jobs in local hotels gave her early writing material. Whilst enjoying writing as a teenager – especially poetry – she abandoned this creative side of herself for more than 25 years, building a successful career in business where she worked in both finance and sales.
Her re-engagement with writing has its roots in memoir but she is also interested in writing from a more historical perspective, encompassing her love for history and old ruins. Having moved around the UK in her work, Fiona is now settled in Rugby with her husband and dog. She does some non-executive director work and freelance coaching. She enjoys golf, swimming and walking with friends.
Chris Wright is a local author who has just published a collection of light poetry and prose on Amazon under the title of Tomfoolery. The collection features poems, prose and comedy from a twenty-year span on topics like: medicine, secret agents, work – the funny side, animals and the environment. Usually, he tries to add a comical twist. Chris is a long-time member of Rugby Cafe Writers and has found their support invaluable. He lives in Cawston and is married with three children and a rescue greyhound.
Buy Chris’s new book, Tomfoolery, here.
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