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Judith Barrow writes domestic thrillers, domestic suspense, & historical family sagas. Her books include the Haworth series, The Memory, shortlisted in 2021 for the Wales Book of the Year. Her latest book The Stranger in my House is out now
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More writing tips, a ghostly short story, and how to get that book started
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More writing tips, a ghostly short story, and how to get that book started
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The Flower Hour #7: The Seasons of a #Hydrangea
Exploring the seasons of the hydrangea for this week’s Flower Hour.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Swan Castle, Cleves, 1521

Nestled deep in a land of myth and legend, the story of Anne of Cleves begins...

This Whiteness of Swans
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This Whiteness of Swans: The Surface and the Deep: Story of Anna of Cleves
This Whiteness of Swans: The Surface and the Deep: Story of Anna of Cleves - Kindle edition by Lawrence, G. , D'Anna, Giusy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading This Whiteness of Swans: The Surface and the Deep: Story of Anna of Cleves.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This week we’re staying up to listen to BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, which explores the relationship between two authors whose estates we represent. Virginia and Katherine, by Alison MacLeod, is on every night this week at 10:45. The full series is also available on BBC Sounds. buff.ly/uF9qgyr
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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How to let go of other people's emotions. #detachment #emotionalbuggage #healing #empath #hsp #letitallgo youtube.com/shorts/IUNRL...
How To Care Without Losing Yourself #detachmentpower #empath #boundaries #emotionalbaggage
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November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Glimpses by Hugh W Roberts. Book Review.
Blurb After publishing some of his short stories on his blog, Hugh W. Roberts, who is dyslexic, received numerous requests to publish his short stories in a book.Here, at last, are 28 short stories…
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November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair 2025 -#Romance #Family #Italy - Finding Serenissima by Apple Gidley, #Colonial #History #Adventure Daniel Boone and Me by N. A. Granger, #Medievalhistory - When Secrets Bloom by Patricia Furstenberg smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/s...
Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair 2025 -#Romance #Family #Italy – Finding Serenissima by Apple Gidley, #Colonial #History #Adventure Daniel Boone and Me by N. A. Granger, #Medievalhistory – When Secr...
Welcome to this year’s Christmas book fair. In the first few posts I will be revisiting some of the new books I have promoted during the year and can also recommend, with one of their other r…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Smorgasbord Posts from My Archives 2025- #Memoir #Waterford #Ireland #History – The Colour of Life - James the Landlord 1939 by Geoff Cronin smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/s...
Smorgasbord Posts from My Archives 2025- #Memoir #Waterford #Ireland #History – The Colour of Life – James the Landlord 1939 by Geoff Cronin
My father-in-law, Geoff Cronin was a raconteur with a encyclopedic memory spanning his 93 years. He sadly died in 2017 but not before he had been persuaded to commit these memories of his childhood…
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November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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January 1536
The King is dead... but who will live long now?

A fateful accident on the jousting field leaves Henry VIII dead and his country trembling on the edge of chaos...

All the King's Bastards
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All the King's Bastards: A Succession of Chaos
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November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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But I Thought I Already Could Speak English!
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But I Thought I Already Could Speak English!
Last week I wrote about finding community as an immigrant or expat.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Where We Walked - Elan Valley #walks #photographs #memories #books judithbarrowblog.com/2025/11/17/w...
Where We Walked – Elan Valley #walks #photographs #memories #books
After weeks of what seems to have been constant rain, we embarked on a couple of days away, determined to walk, whatever the weather. We headed for Mid Wales. We were lucky: the clouds parted, the …
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November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Smorgasbord Short Stories - Tales from the Irish Garden - Summer: Chapter Fourteen - Summer - The Rescue Mission by Sally Cronin smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/s...
Smorgasbord Short Stories – Tales from the Irish Garden – Summer: Chapter Fourteen – Summer – The Rescue Mission by Sally Cronin
There will be new stories in a further collection I am currently working on so I hope this reminder of these tales will set the scene for those. Last week A small badger came to the magic garden to…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Sunday Book Review - This Is How We Work #anthology - Stories, Memoirs & Poems about the Social Dimensions of Work - Yvette Prior, contributing editor dgkayewriter.com/2025/11/15/s...
Sunday Book Review – This Is How We Work #anthology – Stories, Memoirs & Poems about the Social Dimensions of Work – Yvette Prior, contributing editor
Welcome to my Sunday Book Review. Today I’m reviewing a new release anthology Yvette Prior has put together in collaboration with a few talented authors and poets. Stories in various genres &…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair #Review - #Psychological #Family - When Things Go Missing by Deborah J. Brasket smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/s...
Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair #Review – #Psychological #Family – When Things Go Missing by Deborah J. Brasket
Time to get into the festive spirit, and along with other features in the book fair. I will be sharing a reminder of those I have shared in the spotlights this year, and some of my reviews since th…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Comedy Guest Spot - Shopping and Influencers smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/s...
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Comedy Guest Spot – Shopping and Influencers
I am delighted to welcome back Terry Tyler with some more of her entertaining funnies. My thanks to Terry Tyler for sharing her humour today. I know she would love to hear from you. A small selecti…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Weekly Round Up 10th - 16th November 2025 - Wedding Anniversary, Big Band era, Movie Themes, cuisine Liechtenstein, humour, book reviews and Christmas book fair. smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/s...
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Weekly Round Up 10th – 16th November 2025 – Wedding Anniversary, Big Band era, Movie Themes, cuisine Liechtenstein, humour, book reviews and Christmas book fair.
Welcome to the round up of posts you might have missed this week on Smorgasbord. I hope you have had a good week… although most of the Ireland, the UK and Europe have been hit hard by a major…
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November 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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CVA video for cat video addicts. Enjoy! 🐈
This Cat Refuses to Eat Until We Play Piano Every Morning
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November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair 2025 - #Supernatural #Adventure - Detour on the Eternal Road by John W. Howell, #Western #Thriller #Romance Reuben Hayes by S. Cox, #Ancienthistory #Fiction #Thriller - Badlands (Savage Land Book 2) by Jacqui Murray smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/s...
Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair 2025 – #Supernatural #Adventure – Detour on the Eternal Road by John W. Howell, #Western #Thriller #Romance Reuben Hayes by S. Cox, #Ancienthistory #Fiction #Thriller ...
Welcome to this year’s Christmas book fair. In the first few posts I will be revisiting some of the new books I have promoted during the year and can also recommend, with one of their other r…
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November 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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22 Letters That Spell Hero #VeteransDay #fathers barbtaub.com/2025/11/11/2...
22 Letters That Spell Hero #VeteransDay #fathers
Seriously? We were supposed to sum up their lives in twenty-two characters (including spaces and punctuation)? “What do you want on the headstone?” The funeral director was going down a list of dec…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Smorgasbord Posts from My Archives 2025 - #Memoir #Waterford #Ireland #History – The Colour of Life - The Shop and Bakery - Family 1840s -1940s by Geoff Cronin smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/s...
Smorgasbord Posts from My Archives 2025 – #Memoir #Waterford #Ireland #History – The Colour of Life – The Shop and Bakery – Family 1840s -1940s by Geoff Cronin
My father-in-law, Geoff Cronin was a raconteur with a encyclopedic memory spanning his 93 years. He sadly died in 2017 but not before he had been persuaded to commit these memories of his childhood…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Weekly Round Up November 3rd - 9th - Vibration Plate, Big Band, Movie Themes, Jack fruit, short stories, Ireland 1930s, Castor Oil, Book reviews, Humour smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/s...
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Weekly Round Up November 3rd – 9th – Vibration Plate, Big Band, Movie Themes, Jack fruit, short stories, Ireland 1930s, Castor Oil, Book reviews, Humour
Welcome to the weekly round up of posts you might have missed this week on Smorgasbord… including a few extras. I hope your week has gone well… We have not seen much sunshine around her…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Sunday Book Review - Social Climbing: and Other Poems by Laura Lyndhurst dgkayewriter.com/2025/11/08/s...
Sunday Book Review – Social Climbing: and Other Poems by Laura Lyndhurst
Welcome to my Sunday Book Review. Today I’m reviewing Laura Lyndhurst’s book – Social Climbing: and Other Poems. This book was done in collaboration with Clive Thompson, photograp…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Smorgasbord Book Reviews - #Anthology This Is How We Work: Stories, Memoirs and Poems about Social Dimensions of Work - Yvette Prior and other authors. smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/s...
Smorgasbord Book Reviews – #Anthology This Is How We Work: Stories, Memoirs and Poems about Social Dimensions of Work – Yvette Prior and other authors.
Delighted to share my review for the anthology This is How We Work Stories, Memoirs and Poems about the Social Dimensions of Work.  Yvette Prior Contributing Editor andJoseph Jerome Dwyer, PhD, She…
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November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Saturday Round-up for Week 2
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Saturday round-up for week 2
Here's how to catch up
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November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Smorgasbord Short Stories - Tales from the Irish Garden - Summer: Chapter Thirteen - Trouble in the Rose Garden by Sally Cronin smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/s...
Smorgasbord Short Stories – Tales from the Irish Garden – Summer: Chapter Thirteen – Trouble in the Rose Garden by Sally Cronin
I did record this collection for my podcast but those recordings will now disappear as I stop my Soundcloud account. However they and the Tales from the Garden will be on my YouTube channel later i…
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November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM