Read because you want to …
Write because you have to …
Hello – to you, new friend or old, and welcome.
The heading about writing is not just my take on it, but the shared compulsion of most writers. My previous header was ‘Making it all up’, an untruth because the blogs were absolute truth – or the best I could serve it. Only the fiction and poetry comes from the ether that has, somehow, tangled with my imagination.
Oh yes, and a couple of novels, Terrible With Raisins and Jigsaw Island all my own work, with a couple of extracts for you to enjoy – and should you enjoy them enough, they might even extract a few pennies from you to give themselves a new home.
AND JUST RELEASED – LEAVING HOME
My new anthology of short stories.
Thank you for visiting – Lynne.
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“A laugh-out-loud,
witty and endearing
novel”
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“A very timely, humane book, full of heart and humour“
Meet Teignmouth Writers at the Civic Hall, Totnes I’ll be there with my novels TERRIBLE WITH RAISINS & JIGSAW ISLAND along with new anthology LEAVING HOME Saturday 22nd November 2025 Click HERE for details Happily, it’s also market day in Totnes, so there’s plenty to see / buy / eat / wear – in the…
This is the first post on the updated website which my friend, the hugely talented photographer Naomi Stolow, first tried to din into my brain. Nommie hasn’t been feeling too bright of late, and we all wish a speedy recovery to her gorgeous peepers. Today I am in the summerhouse with my equally talented friend,…
Thanks to Guy Verhofstadt for posting about Kristallnacht yesterday. Known, too, as the Night of Broken Glass and the November Pogrom(s), it was a pogrom against Jews and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by the Sturmabteilung, the Nazi party’s original paramilitary wing. The German authorities looked on without intervening. The name Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night”) comes…
Lynne McVernon 