Memoir in all its variety.
My husband Dr Atam Vetta's PhD was published in Nature. It was on quantative genetics. He taught me that every human being is UNIQUE. That means we each have a unique story to tell. So how should you
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01, 2025
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12, 2024
Oxford Indie Book Fair on Dec 1, the biggest in the country and a challenge!
Andy Severn, James Harrison Ray Foulk and I had a dream of an event for book lovers which was free to enter, welcoming of everyone whatever their age or background. I tell the story of how it all
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11, 2024
Sanity in a Mad World? Memories of Colin Dexter and PD James.
Today I weep for Ukraine and the environment. I really don’t understand my fellow human beings. What a terrible confession for an author! Many young black men voted for a racist. Many ‘Latinos’ voted for a man who builds a
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07, 2024
My Town /Gown Literary Walk Inspired by Sculpting the Elephant
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19607563.novel-walk-around-oxford-author-sylvia-vetta/ Most visitors to Oxford cluster around a few streets of Dreaming Spires and, in my opinion, miss out on the complexities of this beautiful city. I recommended a few books on the subject for https://shepherd.com/best-books/oxford-and-where-town-meets-gown In Sculpting the Elephant,
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07, 2024
Do Keir Starmer and other party leaders have the courage to call Farage a ‘Parliamentary Leper’?
The Madras Courier is a prestigious award winning online newspaper. Its readers are mostly in India and the Indian diaspora. I’ve been delighted to be a regular contributor of features .The editor, Shrenik Rao, asked me to write about
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06, 2024
Have you discovered Shepherd.com? It’s a research tool and an asset for authors.
Shepherd.com has only been established for three years but is already getting good traffic. I'm one of 9,000 authors who have shared five of our favorite books around a topic dear to our hearts. Below are the links to my entries.
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05, 2024
My epic story based on the Beijing Spring(1979). Evidence that Brushstrokes in Time is still selling
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/proginfo/2024/17/the-invention-of I agree with Misha Glenny. It’s important. We need to know about the history of China. That was why I spent 6 years researching the Beijing Spring of 1979, the Stars Art Movement, the birth of the Democracy Movement
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04, 2024
Excellent news about the fab Proof Social but Kennington is NOT a SUBURB but is the site of a world championship
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24256468.oxford-bakery-named-among-best-bakeries-britain/ Excellent news but I object to my village being called a SUBURB by the Oxford Mail! Oxford would love it to be but Kennington has always resisted the take over. My whodunit, Current of Death is inspired by the
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01, 2024
Sitting next to Agatha? Why did it take so long to put up a statue to her?
Sitting next to Agatha? Why did it take so long to put up a statue to her? It took Wallingford a long time to recognise the tourist pull of long term resident Agatha Christie. I wonder why? Is it because
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09, 2023
The importance of telling the whole story!
All Souls is a wealthy graduate college of Oxford which opens to the public on just one day a year- today-for Open Doors Oxford. The view of the Radcliffe Camera from the quad is exceptional. It has an impressive library