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A very personal reflection on 2020

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:December 31, 2020
  • Post category:Uncategorized

2020 Looking back on 2020 it is tempting to focus on negatives – there have certainly been enough of them, and it’s impossible to minimize the impact of the pandemic.…

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Britain’s ‘Little Ice Age’

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:December 12, 2019
  • Post category:Articles

It's hardly surprising in the UK that we are notorious for talking about the weather, for it is nothing if not unpredictable. Take the last 2 weeks - where I…

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Munro meets the Poldarks.

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:September 6, 2018
  • Post category:My Writing Life

Now here's a thing - every writer has authors who have inspired them, whose work they admire and whom they would like to be compared to. For me, one of…

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A first for me – a feature in a German newspaper

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:May 22, 2018
  • Post category:Media Coverage/My Writing Life

Yesterday a link dropped onto my FB author page which, once I'd realised it was a link (several hours and someone's comment later) took me straight to an article in a German…

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Where’s My Plaid? – Lovely new review for Turn of the Tide

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:March 10, 2015
  • Post category:Book Reviews/My Writing Life

Sometimes you get one of those reviews that really lifts your spirits and you know that what you've written has given a lot of enjoyment to a reader - this…

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When History came to Life – Scotland’s History Festival 2014

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:February 8, 2015
  • Post category:Articles

After many years as the ‘Cinderella’ subject, history has been making a comeback. Authors of historical fiction are beating all comers in the big prize stakes, our TV schedules are…

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Escape to the Country – then and now…

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:February 3, 2015
  • Post category:Articles/Interviews / Guest Blogging

I have to confess to a mild (my husband would say serious) and long-standing addiction to house programmes on the TV – buying houses, selling houses, renovating houses…even cleaning houses.…

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Charles I and a very small coffin…

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:January 30, 2015
  • Post category:Articles

It isn’t every day I find an intriguing little snippet, but today was one of those days. This article tells the tale of the finding and opening of Charles I’s…

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My Writing Year – 2014

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:January 9, 2015
  • Post category:My Writing Life

Due to circumstances beyond my control (genuinely and very frustratingly) I found myself unable to continue with the sequel to Turn of the Tide in the first half of 2014.…

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Books for a wet and windy night?

  • Post author:margaretskea
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Articles

Last night it poured. Most of the night in fact, which in my house doesn't lend itself to a good night's sleep as we sleep under the eaves and have…

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