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Author Archives: hcannam
Wedgwood Collection Saved!
It’s lovely to have good news in the welter of doom and gloom that pours out of the radio when it’s first switched on in the morning. This time, it’s the great news that the Wedgwood Collection has been saved … Continue reading
Binchester latest!
Very good news today – the Church Commissioners have agreed to sell the Binchester site to the Auckland Castle Trust!
Posted in Random Thoughts
Tagged Auckland Castle, Binchester, County Durham, Roman remains, Vinovia
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The Auckland Experience?
‘I think the man who took over Auckland Castle should take over Binchester too. It’s the obvious thing.’ So said my husband, when we went to see the latest excavations at the Roman site of Vinovia, and realised that its … Continue reading
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Tagged Auckland Castle, Biishop Auckland, Binchester, County Durham, Jonathan Ruffer, Roman remains, tourism, urban decay, Vinovia
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The Pompeii of the North?
I visited a Roman fort the other day – or rather, WE visited a Roman fort, though my husband is no enthusiast for Roman remains. He has no historical imagination and they just look like meaningless heaps of stones to … Continue reading
Scottish bereavement?
Overheard on the bus in Durham, two ladies chatting: ‘I like Scotland. I’d live there if I could. I hope they don’t split.’ ‘We should go with them. They’re more like us.’ ‘More like us’, I suppose she meant, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Margaret Thatcher, Scotland, Scottish referendum, Westminster government
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A Kind of – Ending?
At long last! After almost two years, every one of my out-of-print back titles has at last been scanned, edited, sometimes revised, and finally converted to ebook format. All 19 of them are now launched in the Kindle store, along … Continue reading
A long time to write…
There are a couple of questions writers are often asked – ‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ and ‘How long does it take you to write a book?’ The first question has no definitive answer – except ‘I don’t … Continue reading
Through the eyes of the past?
I guess no author of historical novels can ever quite leave herself behind. In any attempt to create the feel of a past age, there will always be a little fissure that lets in something of the twenty first century, … Continue reading
Weardale ballad
It’s a question fiction writers often get asked: ‘Where do your characters come from?’ There are two expected answers – one, that they’re all bits of myself; the other, that they’re taken from real life, from people around me. Both … Continue reading
Posted in Authorial voice
Tagged a life of their own, characters, leadmining, Weardale
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My best review ever
I’ve just launched my historical romance, ‘The Corsair’ in the Kindle store, the last of my romances to reach ebook form. It has a special place in my affections, partly because it has a lightheartedness about it, and a central … Continue reading
Helen Cannam 