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Praise for Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof
“Witty, evocative and heartwarming. Another Mallorcan pearl from Anna Nicholas.”
Peter Kerr, best selling Scottish travel writer & author of Snowball Oranges
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Top 5 Must Read Books for July!

Well, having suffered a week or gastroenteritis, an experience my 12 year son Ollie was also lucky enough to share with me (ho ho) I at least had a little cheer-me-up moment this morning with the following review from St Christopher’s Inns publication and website:

‘‘Goats From A Small Island by Anna Nicholas’‘
‘No one is more of an authority...

Orange Fest in Sóller

All foodies and lovers of fine dining, make haste to the Sóller Valley over the next two weeks where the Festival of Taronjas, oranges to you and me, is kicking off today in Sóller’s main plaça. From 9.30 until 14.00, there will be cooking demonstrations using citrus fruits by acclaimed television chef, Aina Burgos, and local Sóller gourmets. Meanwhile stalls...

Boris Makes A Splash

It’s difficult to resist a smile at the video clip that’s been doing the rounds showing London Mayor, Boris Johnson, falling over in a river in Lewisham where he was promoting a litter clean up campaign. One minute he’s smiling cheerfully at the camera, rubbish sack in hand, the next he slips backwards, bringing a hapless female volunteer with him...

Blowing A Big Strawberry!

It’s been a blissfully Elf & Safety free time but now news reaches me from Cornwall that has shattered the calm. A famed strawberry farm owned by the same family for 40 years has been forced to close its ‘pick your own’ business by bumptious little E&S officials. Annually, generations of locals have descended on the farm in Cornwall to...

When Push Comes To Shove

The expenses witch hunt, though undeniably fun and fairly exhilarating for a few days, has surely begun to lose its shine? The pillorying of errant, smug and unscrupulous MPs and Ministers hung out to dry in their local constituencies was great sport at the beginning, but has now become rather yawn worthy. Such legions have committed offences and are falling...

Goodbye Amigo

I don’t know about talented Brits, but I have just met the most extraordinarily talented young singer in my own town of Sóller. Some of you may remember my sad account of the death of Tyler, the 19 year old son of our friends Antonia and Albert Engle, who was killed by a tourist performing an illegal u-turn in the...

Britain's Got No Heart

For the last few weeks the media has been in a complete frenzy about the talent show, Britain’s Got Talent. True, I am the Rip Van Winkle of the mountains when it comes to TV but even I have heard of the show and-dare I admit it-watched a clip of Susan Boyle on You Tube. I haven’t gone as far...

Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice
Despite the unpleasant whiff of sabotage surrounding the appointment of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, there is an upside. Without the sniping, backbiting and appalling behaviour of at least one of the contenders, there wouldn’t have been such wholesale press coverage and the world of poetry would not have been put at the top of the agenda....

Unleashed from the crypt!

Ok, that’s a tad dramatic. My little cellar isn’t so very crypt-like although the white walls, unpadded as yet, and the general silence would without doubt appeal to a trapist monk. Well, dear readers, I have finally put my next little tome to bed and to say I am maaaaaa’d out would be an understatement. For some months now I...

A Big Thank you!

Having arrived back from Sri Lanka to more than 300 e-mails and a whole load of writing deadlines, I hope you will forgive me for not posting an update about my trip. We had an absolutely wonderful sojourn in Sri Lanka and spent some precious time with the devoted Sisters at the Jeevanie Orphanage and Our Lady of Victories girl’s...

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Thank you for popping by my website. Aside from giving you the latest news about my two Mallorca book titles, A Lizard in my Luggage and the forthcoming Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof, I shall be uploading my regular Saturday columns in the Majorca Daily Bulletin newspaper (known to friends as the Weekly Rant) and also other travel and miscellaneous articles.

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