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Rosemary Bailey is an award-winning travel writer and journalist, born in Halifax, Yorkshire. She has been based in the French Pyrenees for many years, and has written a trilogy of books about a region she has grown to love and know intimately. Soon to be re-published is the acclaimed Scarlet Ribbons: A Priest with AIDS, the story of her brother, Simon Bailey, and the remarkable support he received from his Yorkshire mining village parish. Rosemary is married to the biographer Barry Miles.
Writing tuition
“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
~ Toni Morrison
Rosemary is available for personal writing tuition specialising in non-fiction travel or memoir writing, journalism or academic work. She is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, teaching writing at Queen Mary College, London University and has also tutored for the Arvon Literary Foundation in travel and Life writing.
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Les Parisiennes
Most war histories are written by men about men. So it is good to read a history of wartime Paris which focusses on the women at last. Meticulous research has produced a wide ranging narrative. Sebba weaves together the stories of many women: resisters, collaborators, fashion designers, society hostesses, deportees, Jews, mothers struggling to feed… Read More